{"id":11720,"date":"2006-02-04T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-04T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=11720"},"modified":"2022-05-21T16:08:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T16:08:04","slug":"japan-trip-2006-sounkyo-ice-festival-hokkaido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/04\/japan-trip-2006-sounkyo-ice-festival-hokkaido\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Trip 2006. Sounkyo Ice Festival, Hokkaido"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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driving through another total whiteout<\/strong> condition…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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nothing but white snow all over<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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that evening, Hiro and I walked to the Sounkyo Ice Sculpture Festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A glimpse of the ice castle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The 31st Sounkyo Ice Festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I was freezing my butt off…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fireworks in the background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I have no idea why I was posing this way…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Friends…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I sure was having a good time…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ice sculpture of an owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hiro and I decided to head towards the ice -carved observation deck<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The walkway up<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wonder what happens if one of these icicles fall down?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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OUCH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This shot just doesn’t look right… \ud83d\ude09<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Okay this one is a bit weird too…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hiro trying to stay warm standing by the spot lights<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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More ice sculptures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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RIng the bell for good luck!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fun slide!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Philip joined us the next morning for the ice festival’s daytime exhibits<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My brother Philip freezing his butt off<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Igloo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hiro pretending to be scaling the ice walls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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After last night’s fun on the ice slide, Hiro wanted to go again…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Yup – I think Hiro is having fun here!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Philip wanted to try too…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nothing beats a nice cup of hot “milk wine” (don’t ask me what it is) after a morning out in the cold!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nice way to transport your child \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Philip joined us the next morning for the ice festival’s daytime exhibits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSCN4546.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11720"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11843,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11720\/revisions\/11843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}