Snow Festival (Day 2) Afternoon and lunch

After a very busy and very chilly morning we were starving! Sapporo is famous for their seafood and specifically their crab so we decided to go to a fancy crab restaurant that we had heard about for lunch! We ended up at the wrong one, but it was still fantastic! Lilia had a major blowout during lunch, but we still had a nice time. This is Lilia pre-blowout....
Everything in the restaurant was crab themed. It was so fun!
Our room at the crab restaurant! It was a traditional Japanese tatami room.
Chrissy is hungry!
The ceiling. I thought it was cool...
Lilia in her own little chair!

Crab sashimi... It was... interesting...
Stair entrance. We took the elevator up to our floor.


It started to snow pretty heavily after we got out of the restaurant...
We went to see the ice sculptures, but because of the heavy snow fall some of them were a little difficult to see!












This was the seven story crab restaurant we were supposed to go to.... We ended up at a six story one instead.... I still thought it was really good! Who knew there were multiple many storied crab restaurants in Sapporo???


T-Rex Ice sculpture. Notice the awesome Japanese translation a couple of pictures down....

Sapporo Snow Festival! (Day 1 ) Friday

Haneda Airport in Tokyo had an area for kids to play in! Why don't they do that in the states??
At this particular airport or maybe just ANA you have to check your stroller. They give you one of theirs to use throughout the airport instead. This is Lilia all ready for our adventure!
Doesn't she look excited??
And we are at the hotel!

So in most American hotels you can find a copy of the Bible or at least the New Testament, right? Well in Japan you can find the New Testament AND the teachings of Buddha!

Here is our little Buddha holding the teaching of Buddha

Chrissy in our room!
It's funny... I took this picture thinking there was a lot of snow on the way to the festival. Little did I know we were going to have a blizzard the following day...
Crab is king in Sapporo.. ha ha! Literally! Get it? King crab... yeah.... Anyway... we saw crab everywhere.

And... We made it! This was the first big sculpture we saw.

This was by FAR my favorite of all of the snow sculptures. All of the animals in this exhibit were incredible.






A little shout out to my dad who works for Coke...


Pretty Impressive, right? These structures were HUGE!!