Hello,
Thank you for visiting our blog. We visited Sapporo, Hakkiado, a Japanese island Feb 4-6,08 for their annual snow fesitval. It was a lot of fun and good to get a way. We stayed outside in temps. of -2.5 to -4 C's. That is pretty cold. In the 20's F. It also snowed and it was so heavy at times you could hardly see. The little Japanese grade school kids would bombard the foreigners to find out where you are from and if they can practice their enlgish with you. It was fun at first, but then we couldn't get away from them. So we felt like Britney Spears being followed by the papparazzi. We even would turn away from them so they wouldn't bother us. But part of the adventure. We also went to a Yakiniku all you eat Lamb and beef. Couldn't tell the difference so I ate everything. It was also all you can drink. And yes, we drank coke only. We went up in the Sapporro tower (90m) and couldn't look at the snow festival up high. This is the 3rd tower we have been in since arriving to Japan. I think there is 6 or 7 total. Anyway it was fun and the file might take a little bit to load, so stay patient and enjoy a piece of the snow and Japan.