Yo-Yo-Yo I’m in Sapporo

I arrived in Sapporo Friday evening and met up with Hannah and Mitch, it was great to see them and give them a big hug each. We spent the evening walking around downtown Sapporo as they where having a Christmas light festival. It had snowed the day previous and it was about -5 and nobody shovels the sidewalks and you could litteraly  strap on the blades and skate almost any where and with a hard blowing wind it was pretty miserable outside. We went up the Sapporo tower and saw the lights and then decided to head back to the hotel, with plans for an early morning and head to Otaaru which is about a 30 minute train ride to this fishing, and port town. We spent Saturday in Ottaru and hiked around and took in the local history it would of been an amazing place to see back when the fishing industry and the freighters would come into the port.
Saturday evening we spent at the Sapporo beer museum and a large banquet facility where we ate copious amounts of lamb, pork and beef you get with vegetables Gengis Kahn style which is a hot plate that you heap the food onto and cook at your table along with unlimited beer.  We had made a 2 hour reservation and made full use of our time and eating and drinking abilities. It was a fun day and night as we slided our way home and didn’t have a crash along the way. Tomorrow we head to Ashoro after a stop at Costco.