Ok...Ok... I know it has been forever since I posted on the blog and I am sorry. I will "try" to get you guys updated and "try" to keep current! So, let me take you back in time on our journey... back to the first week of February 2011... to the Sapporo Snow Festival! Sapporo is located in northern Japan so we had to take an airplane to get there....
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The kids thought this was the coolest plane ever...
besides Dad's jet of course! |
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| Do you think Ally has a big enough bib on?!?! |
Our first stop on the tour was to the Sapporo beer factory! Sapporo beer is well known throughout Japan! We enjoyed an all you can drink and all you can eat barbeque... well the fine print is "all you can eat and drink in two hours"! We were plenty stuffed and still had time to tour the beer store and the kids played outside in the snow.
Next, we went into the city to Odori Park to view the beautiful ice sculptures and snow displays that were there. There were so many works of art up and down blocks of the center of town. Here are just a few...
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| Michael on Ski track! |
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| Snow storm hit in the middle of our walk! |
This is a picture of one of the slides at nearby Tsudome Site. We had a blast on these giant snow slides. We even went on a ride on a life boat that was being towed around a track by snowmobile - crazy fun! We were going so fast that I was afraid to take the camera out to get a picture - use your imagination! The kids also learned to ski on these little tiny skis - I am sure there is a name for them, but I don't know. As shown below, Ally got it no problem, but Nick thought it would be easier to ski on one.
Our final stop on the tour was to Lake Shikotsu - here all the objects that you see are made from water from the lake and lit up to become this beautiful play land! We had fun walking through the ice tunnels, ice skating and going down super fast ice slides. We mostly enjoyed the hot cocoa at the end though because we were freezing!
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| The kids inside a frozen tunnel that was lit up. |
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| Ally going down the slide |
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