Hokkaido Trip

Trip to the Snow Festival in Sapporo, Hokkaido. I'll try to add some more comments later...it took a long time to upload all these pictures..bah

The mascot of Sapporo? These things were everywhere.



Day 1:

Odori Park in Sapporo

The snowboard jump that they built right in the middle of the park.

Thai style

Boy-band

Antarctica sea voyage (The dogs in the middle of this sculpture are the dogs that live on the boat)

close-up of the Antarctica sculpture

It's like Christmas all over again! Only this time with snow.

Fighters (Sapporo's baseball team)

Day 2: Skiing at Niseko

The top of the ski mountain

The view

Otaru City by Night

Otaru Canal

Otaru Station



Day 3: Satoland

She looks really scared of the stranger taking her picture.

BBQ corn

My baby.

Ice Sculptures in Sapporo

Mmm, fish on ice.

Having a drink at the Bailey's Ice House

The HAJET enkai

4L of beer, right on our table!

I think the vegetarians got a way better deal at the enkai than everyone else. The meat-eaters just got lamb and cabbage to barbecue, we got about 7 different courses! Here's the mushroom tempura.

Drunk Chris (wearing his plastic bib as a hat), and glam-looking Anita escorting him onto the train.


Day 4: Leaving
The last day was a national holiday, so there was a mass exodus to the airport, making for extremely crowded travel.

Haha, look at Anita (The blob in the middle, on the tray table).