Other Scenes in and Around Sapporo

One of the great things about this trip to Hokkaido was the very little amount of planning that I had to do to prepare for it. I tagged along with Fuji Climbing Partner who doubles as both a good trip planner and a non-obnoxious travel buddy. In travel, it generally doesn't take long for some people to get annoying - especially, close-minded people, morning people, late-morning people, mid-afternoon people, late-afternoon people, evening people, excitable people, outgoing people, friendly people and people who put salt on their watermelon slices.
Thankfully, Fuji Climbing Partner was none of those things in Hokkaido.
This was a museum entrance before the snow fell.
According to her guidebook, this outdoor museum is one of the best sites in Sapporo. It's a collection of buildings important to the island's young modern history. Japanese people didn't settle here much until the mid-19th century. At one point while walking around and not seeming all to eager to stop everywhere one of us turned to the other and asked, "so, you into architecture?"
"yeah, me neither."
Lots of snow in Sapporo.
From the snow festival. Apparently the train wasn't running, so instead of fixing it or just leaving it alone, they had a man push it around the track.
Definitely the angriest meal advert I've ever seen. Can you imagine the Colonel trying to fry one of these without losing a few fingers?
In my last night in the area (Fuji stuck around another night or two), we met up with Infectious Laughter and German Speaker in a very active part of the city that featured some other ice sculptures. This picture is not of an ice sculpture, however, but rather that one wonderful display of hair on the right side of the photo.