We went to visit Ayako's parents' tomb and the temple in Sunagawa and my parents's temple in Iwamizawa.

It is the Obon season. Many people all across the country go to visit their ancester's tombs in their hometowns. We go to vist Ayako's ancesters' tomb in Sunagawa and my parents's temple in Iwamizawa every year. I drove a car with Ayako taking the highway to Sunagawa, and on the way, at the service area in Iwamizawa, we met Haruna with her daughter Minori from Sapporo, who Ayako had promised to go to Sunagawa together. At a supermarket in the suburbs of Sunagawa, we bought flowers and bringing them, we went first to the tomb. We weeded and cleaned around the tombstone, decorated with flowers,  stood candles, burnt incense sticks, and prayed. Then we went to the temple. We asked the young monk to chant a sutra in front of Ayako's little family altar. After that, we headed for Iwamizawa. We took lunch at a roard station in Mikasa city, and went to a temlple in Iwamizawa. We prayed for my parents in front of their little altar. We said goodby to Haruna and Minori, and we came home at around four o'clock.