Snow Home and Away

Winter Olympic Snow display

65th Hokkaido Snow Festival

Last week we went to Sapporo in Hokkaido. Hokkaido is the Northern island of Japan. This makes it cold so there is a lot of snow.

Ice Sculpture with frozen fish inside!

Ice Eagle carving

 As there is so much snow there is a snow festival . At the Snow Festival there were huge snow statues, life size snow buildings and ice carvings.

Lit up ice building

Snow slide

We also went to to a snow park where there were ice and snow slides, a raft being pulled by a snow mobile and we made bamboo skis.  In the town at night the snow statues were lit up and there were lots of stalls selling food. The best thing I had to eat was some crab. Also in town there was a big snow slope made by scaffolding so that professionals could perform skiing and snowboarding stunts

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Our igloo

Snow at Home

This week there has been a lot of snow around home.  It snowed all day on Friday  and we came back from school before lunch. When we got home we went on our sledge down the hills round the garden, when we fell off the sledge we rolled over in the soft snow.  The next day the snow was about 80 cm deep. There were very few cars on the road, and mostly they used chains on the tyres for grip.  We made a long slide and also an igloo.

We had Monday and Tuesday off school too because of so much snow.  This much snow is very unusual here, the area has had the most snow for 100 years.