Gosh The last time I did Hamami and had a picnic was in Yokosuka in 1981, when I was in High School. When my daughter was stationed in Hawaii, I had attended my granddaughter's ensoku, and we had a picnic underneath the famous Japanese Hitachi tree, granted it wasn't a Cherry Blossom tree but having a picnic under the tree brought back some found memories of the time our family had spent in Japan.