Local festival

Our local matsuri was held over the weekend. We went down to the elementary school to see some of the events. We had a lottery ticket and were hoping to win the top prize of a bicycle:
Unfortunately we didn't win any of the main prizes, so our parting gift was a box of tissues:
Afterwards, we walked up behind the school to the local shrine. We were given some mochi (Japanese rice cake) for coming up to visit the shrine during the festival: