Parts 1, 2 & 3 are at the following links if you missed them!
Day 3 of our adventures in Sapporo! We started off the day revisiting Odori Park, specifically the "International Square." The winners of the 41st International Snow Sculpture Contest were announced this morning. We'd watched the sculptors for a while on Thursday and wanted to see the finished sculptures and which one had won. If you'd like to know the meaning of each sculpture they are located HERE.
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| Daejeon Metropolitan City, Korea's work in progress |
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| 1st Place Daejeon Metropolitan City, Korea - "Mobius Glove" Created by 3 professional sculptors. |
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| Hong Kong's work in progress. |
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| 2nd Place Hong Kong - "The Jumping Qilin" Created by a Director of Food&Beverage and 2 Kitchen Artists. |
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| 3rd Place Thailand - "Kingdom of Thailand" Created by 3 professional artists. |
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| 4th Place Singapore - "Let Remove It" Created by 2 professional sculptors and 1 artist. |
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| Malaysia's work in progress. |
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| 5th Place Malaysia - "Proboscis Monkey" Created by 2 professional sculptors and 1 Chief Decorator. |
Here are the rest of the sculptures that did not place in the top 5:
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| Hawaii - "In Plain Sight" Created by a Kitchen Artist, Breakfast Chef and a Sushi Chef. |
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| New Zealand - "Black and Silver" Created by 3 teachers. |
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| Republic of Poland - "Mother Nature Watering Valleys in the Karkonosze Mountains in Poland" Created by a teacher, a student and a Monument Conservation Officer. |
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| Portland (USA) - "Rats are eating my lunch!" Created by an artist and 2 gardeners. |
From Odori Park we went off in search of lunch. We found an Italian place, La Pausa. It's a chain in Japan. No English menu so we had to order what looked good from the pictures. We chose pretty well! (I was later able to look up the menu online and see what we had ordered...)
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| Sundried tomato, basil and chicken. |
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| Shrimp, scallops and cod roe in cream sauce. |
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| Dessert - creme brulee and strawberry ice cream. |
This was Section 1 of Odori Park, the skating rink. I wanted to go ice skating, but thought that the rink would be a little bigger. We decided not to do it. I wonder if they would've had skates big enough for Keenan anyway? Usually the shoe sizes here top out at about a men's 9 or 10...
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| Yup, his head is touching the ceiling here! |
There is a chocolate factory in Sapporo called Shiroi Koibito Park. They make Shiroi Koibito cookies which is one of the most famous products of Hokkaido. A tour of the factory was ¥600 per person and included 1 cookie each to try. The factory was eclectic, besides just watching the making of the cookies there were also collections of chocolate cups (for drinking hot chocolate), children's toys, gramophones, some hands on activities for kids such as making their own cookie, a bunch of weird mini houses in the courtyard, and lots and lots of different sweets to eat there or take home as souvenirs.
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| The Aurora Fountain. Produced by England's Royal Doulton Company in 1870ish. |
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| My sample cookie. It was 2 shortbread wafers with white chocolate in the middle. We didn't think they were anything spectacular. |
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| This was a protest march that we witnessed on our way out of Sapporo. One man told us that the group is a racist against South Koreans. Through a short amount of research I think what's going on is that South Koreans in Japan get some special rights and this group doesn't think they should... |
And that's our adventure to the Sapporo Snow Festival 2014!
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