ICU Study Abroad 2/07 (Snow Festival)

by Marisa Meana

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On the train bound for Haneda airport in Tokyo. We we so close to missing...

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Greg and I at the airport. (He hate these pictures).

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Our plane!!!! Ok, so let me take some time to explain something. The snow...

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The tail of our plane!!!

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Greg and I on the plane!! Greg looks rather scared....

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Our first night in Sapporo!! From the right it's Lana, Addison, Greg, and...

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It was a really cold night so we decided to eat yaki-niku (barbacue)!!

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Lana really helped with the cooking cuz I had no clue how to do it. It...

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Addison about to lick the burnt remains of some bean sprouts off his...

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Half a snowman on a statue. I thought it was really funny.

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So our first night, we went to see the ice sculptures. There were over a...

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This is an ice sculpture of the dolls that are set out on Girls'...

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Chilled Sapporo beer!

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They even had fish frozen in some of the ice sculptures. It was really cool.

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A close up of a frozen fish.

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A close up of a frozen crab.

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Lana and I crying like the snowman, because as the sign says, it's been a...

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Japanese style building.

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They even had ice bars, like igloos, where you could go in and have a drink.

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Me at the Bailey's bar.

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Justin got a warm milk with Bailey's and he seems to be enjoying it very...

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Another bar.

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A guy carving ice sculptures with a chainsaw.

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Bar Espana..... yum.... There are tons of Spanish restaurants in Japan.

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An eagle.

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A mermaid.

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The Statue of Liberty (but for some reason she had a really thick arm.)...

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The name of the sculpture, which of course, made no sense in English.

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Literally, an ice bar.

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A frozen sting ray, although he seems to be bleeding a bit...

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After that night, we went to bed early. The next day, we bundled up...

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We turned out to be the only people over 9 there beside some parents, but we...

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This is a huge snow slide where you could go down in a tube.

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We were a bit embarassed waiting on line since we were the oldest...

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Some small snow sculptures.

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The snow bunnies!

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Another view of the snow slide.

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Yuki daruma (Japanese version of snowmen)!!! There were tons of them!!

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Lana in a really Azn pose!

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We were so impressed by the yuki daruma that we decided to make some ourselve.

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Justin and Addison worked together!

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Lana made her own.

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And I was supposed to help Greg make one, but he had it covered.

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Greg and I with our snow penguin!!! Isn't it cute?

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The 3 yuki daruma!! The far left one is Greg and I's snow penguin. The...

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Next we decided to go through the snow labyrinth. It was a lot of fun!

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A view of the snow playland.

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Another view from the top of the labyrinth.

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After the snow playland, we went back to our hotels to take a nap cuz we were...

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The Sapporo tower, which looked beautiful all lit up in the night!!

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A huge scuplture of a whale shark! In front of the large snow...

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Another view.

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Stitch!! This snow sculpture was sponsored by Tokyo Disney and had a really...

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Close-up of Stitch in his car.

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Me sitting at an ice cafe. As you can see, I'm wearing freaky baby...

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Everyone else sitting at the cafe enjoying their hot soups cuz it was bitter...

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A cow sculpture. Apparantly, Hokkaido is famous for their milk because...

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They were having some kind of game show on stage where you had to guess the...

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They even had Spongebob!!!!

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A cool snow sculpture of a Japanese style buidling. They were having...

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Where lost children go...

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We ate dinner outdoors at the picnic area of the snow festival. It was super...

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A cool ice sculpture of a palace.

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Another view.

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A Japanese style palace. This one was Greg's favorite.

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A weird seal with horns in front of the Japanese style palace.

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Me and Stitch!!!

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Another view of Stitch.

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Totoro!!!!

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This was my favorite sculpture. It was huge, but really clearly...

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It had a humback whale and seals.

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and doggies too!!!

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And even a boat with penguins.

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Close up of the seals.

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A view of the penguins. They looked like the just stepped out of the movie,...

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Looked just like the father from the movie!

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More penguins, but these look like the Hispanic penguins from "Happy...

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They also had a international snow sculpture contest where countries sent...

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Thomas the Tank Engine. (This picture is for Daniel and his chu-chus)

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Sapporo town hall.

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More Totoro!!

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The next day we bought souvenirs and went home. Here is a picture of...

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Me!

article published 2/14/2007

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