Playing in the Snow

Snow Festival (Day 3)

Here is Sapporo's sister city Portland! I actually thought their sculpture was a little boring, but the guys did stop to take let me take a picture for Cliff.


More from the world competition
Singapore
Indonesia
Thailand
Hawaii (are you noticing a rather tropical trend here??)


Finland, I think?

Lilia on the drive home
Mt. Fuji on the drive home as seen through Yokohama

Snow Festival (Day 2) Morning

We got a pretty early start on Saturday morning. Lilia woke up early and she pretty much set our schedule. Fortunately the hotel had a free breakfast and it wasn't half bad for being Japanese. (The Japanese often eat fish for breakfast...) So we had plenty of fuel for the day and lots of sunshine to get us going.

Off to breakfast in the hotel!
Lilia had some craaaazy hair this particular morning.
Getting ready to head out!

Up!
Lilia all bundled up! It was soooo cold. It's a good thing she was facing into me because the wind was awful and the temperature was downright frosty the entire day.




Can you see all of the detail? There were flowers carved into the roof!







International competition in progress



Anpanman!!!



Russian Dolls in the international competition venue
The international competition was still in progress while we were there. We didn't get to see the finished products as we had to return to Tokyo, but we did get to see the sculptures in progress!