Sapporo

Considering that I am now almost two months behind in the blogging, I feel as though I must speed it up a bit. Especially because we have been doing some really great stuff over the last few months and I want to get it up here before I forget some of that greatness!

December 26th

After a long bus ride back into the heart of Hokkaido, Sapporo, we settled in to our really nice hotel. I couldn't believe after the Ryokan that we had stayed in at Niseko, that our hotel was so nice. We spent very little on our trip and it was a package deal, so we weren't expecting much. Anyway, this place was like brand new! (Hotel Trinity, check it out ;P ) We all crashed early!

December 27th

We got up fairly early, enjoyed the buffet breakfast from this hotel, and started our day visiting the TV Tower. From the top of the tower, you can see Sapporo very well! We saw the famous ski jump from the Winter Olympics years ago (I think it was in the 70's)


A view of Odori park. At night, it was lit up with Christmas lights. And, in the month of February, there is a big snow sculpture festival that happens there. It's world famous, and from the pictures Ive seen, amazing!!!


A nice picture to reflect my baby's baby blues!


The Sapporo Beer Factory



Next, we were off to the Sapporo Beer Factory. Last year we went there and it was a lot of fun, and we thought Marta and Cody would enjoy it.

We walked through the museum, looking at all of the interesting paraphenalia, only to find ourselves spending the majority of our time (again) at the tasting counter, where you could get 3 glasses of beer, and a snack for 800yen. We got 2!


These posters were really neat. They were poster ads for Sapporo beer from the past years. Some of them were really cool.


The beers were all really good. My favorite was the Yebisu Black (Yebisu is a subsidiary of Sapporo)


Marta and Cody seemed to beat us :) I guess they did, actually.