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Sapporo Snow Festival

posted by Nicholas on February 28th, 2006 at 3:42 pm JST

We went to the Sapporo Snow Festival for three days at the beginning of February. The festival is Sapporo’s excellent way of making the best of its very cold winter and the feet of snow it has just sitting around. The event’s main attractions are the giant (think 10 meters or taller) snow and ice sculptures, but there are plenty of other things to do and see there, too. Like eat mutton and drink weird, thick rice liquor with the mutton vendors. Or make snowmen. Or ride giant ice slides. We did all of those things and had a great time.

 
Chronicles of Narnia snow sculpture
Nicholas and snow reindeer
Giant ice sculpture
Sarah, On-chan, Nicholas
Sarah and snow penguins
Nicholas and Doraemon
Singers in front of ice sculpture
Angkor Wat ice sculpture
Nicholas with Ramen
Fish frozen in ice sculpture
Sarah and giant Bailey's bottle
Sarah on an ice slide
Sarah looking cold
Nicholas in a snow maze
Snow maze
Nicholas, Sarah and snowman
Nicholas and Sarah making ice glasses
Nicholas drinking from ice glass
Field of snowmen
Nicholas making snowman
Us with snowman
Our snowman
Crab dinner
Crab restaurant
Giant ice sculpture
Wallace and Grommit snow sculpture
Giant ice sculpture
Lithuania: It Happens
Dancers
 

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  1. Mom says:

    Hi,
    I really liked the Sapporo pictures. I wonder how many people will start making snowmen the “American” way now? It looked bitter cold but at least you had some warm liquids to thaw you. My favorites were of the ones lit at night-very cool.
    Love,
    Husker Mom

  2. Dad Alward says:

    Great pictures! It brought back great memories of carrying Sarah around on my shoulders through Sapporo a few years ago.

    Love

    Hawkeye Dad

  3. Sarah says:

    a FEW years ago? Or, say, 23 years ago?