We finally made it to the Sapporo and I am finally getting around to blogging about it. It certainly was a memorable vacation but not for good reasons. Julia threw up before the plane landed in Sapporo and was sick the rest of that day. We still managed to go to the Sapporo Beer Brewery and enjoy a nice lunch and beer. Then we checked into the Sapporo Grand hotel that was 2 blocks from the snow sculptures. That night Sydney and I went out to see some of the sculptures lit up and that was great. Syd even got to go down an ice slide many times.
On Friday we went to the Tso-Dome which was another site for the snow festival. It had more ice slides, tube slides, snowman building area and boat ride behind a snowmobile. I grew up with the experience of riding on a sled or taboggen behind the 4 wheeler at the farm so it was interesting to pay for this experience but it was a great time. Harry and Sydney then went down the tubing hill with our good friends the O'Connors and they all had a great time on the tubes.
Unfortunately that night Sydney started throwing up and continued to do so all night long. The next morning we extended our stay at the hotel as long as possible. We let the tour group leave us behind and we headed to the airport by train so that Sydney could just sleep on the chairs. We arrived at the airport at 2pm, the tour arrived at 7pm and by then Sydney was feeling better. We boarded our plane a little after 9pm but with the deicing and snow coming down really hard we sat by the gate for a while. Then a little after 10 we were told to deplane and take all your belongings with you. That is never good to hear. Luckily for us both girls had fallen alseep so we just carried them out to the airport and layed them down on the ground with some blankets under them. We had never spend the night at the airport before so we make the most of it! We made it home the next day and were really happy this vacation was over. We will try the next one to Tokyo next weekend, wish us luck!
We finally made it to the Sapporo and I am finally getting around to blogging about it. It certainly was a memorable vacation but not for good reasons. Julia threw up before the plane landed in Sapporo and was sick the rest of that day. We still managed to go to the Sapporo Beer Brewery and enjoy a nice lunch and beer. Then we checked into the Sapporo Grand hotel that was 2 blocks from the snow sculptures. That night Sydney and I went out to see some of the sculptures lit up and that was great. Syd even got to go down an ice slide many times.
On Friday we went to the Tso-Dome which was another site for the snow festival. It had more ice slides, tube slides, snowman building area and boat ride behind a snowmobile. I grew up with the experience of riding on a sled or taboggen behind the 4 wheeler at the farm so it was interesting to pay for this experience but it was a great time. Harry and Sydney then went down the tubing hill with our good friends the O'Connors and they all had a great time on the tubes.
Unfortunately that night Sydney started throwing up and continued to do so all night long. The next morning we extended our stay at the hotel as long as possible. We let the tour group leave us behind and we headed to the airport by train so that Sydney could just sleep on the chairs. We arrived at the airport at 2pm, the tour arrived at 7pm and by then Sydney was feeling better. We boarded our plane a little after 9pm but with the deicing and snow coming down really hard we sat by the gate for a while. Then a little after 10 we were told to deplane and take all your belongings with you. That is never good to hear. Luckily for us both girls had fallen alseep so we just carried them out to the airport and layed them down on the ground with some blankets under them. We had never spend the night at the airport before so we make the most of it! We made it home the next day and were really happy this vacation was over. We will try the next one to Tokyo next weekend, wish us luck!
2 comments:
Sounds like an experience to say the least with some fun mingled in. I'm sure this will be something all will be talking about for some time. The girls will probably remember it as a great time, especially Sydney!
BTW...that sculpture is beautiful!
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