Sapporo Snow Festival!!!

On friday night me and amanda joined a staff bus trip to sapporo to see the annual snow festival. The fest ival is held in the centre of Sapporo in odori park, which is about 2km long and stretches horizontally across the city. The festival itself is huge, and the ice sculptures are incredible. Some of the massive ones have over 500 trucks worth of snow in them and it takes over 3000 people 2 weeks to sculpt a single display!!!! Its super crazy, they get the snow trucked in from the city outskirts to maintain a consistent 'pure white' snow. it was super cold though, prob about -15 or so, on the bus on the way in ice and frost were building up on the inside window sills of the bus!!

Awesome view of Mt Youtei on the way to work.

Those of you who know amanda well will be shocked to see this photo....SHE IS EATING A BURGER FROM A TAKEAWAY BURGER PLACE!!!! A HAMBURGER!!! WOOOOOOO

I prefer to put a cheeseburger in a bigmac actually!! yeh maccas, no trip to Sapporo would be the same without it!!

crazy big ice sculptures



This was my favourite, its a replica of a korean temple











Random american girl posing with michael jackson sculpture





The boys loving all the food





this sis the qualifying jump for the next Toyota Big Air in sapporo. The finals jump is about 10kms away and 5 times bigger



Ice on the bus window!!! so cold!!