A guided tour of the north

I am sorry if you are illiterate and can not read the sign to see where I went... study a little harder and you'll get it. Just like knitting a foreign language takes practice, you may be wondering if a native language takes practice, too!

I introduce my 7 year old tour Guide. Guide and I got along great. Although I am still a little jealous he passed the 4th grade writing test beating my score by 10 points. I quickly got over that as we road the bus to the park to observe the crowds at 9am. Our eyes got kind of big a the site of this:

Regardless of the 3 hours line, we jumped right in... for the 20 second tube ride. ;) (I later found out that the locals don't stand in line, they just sled in their back yards to avoid such lines.) Guide and I, we spend 5 hours at the park sledding, bamboo skiing, participating in obstacle courses, walking through a snow maze ... lots of fun. After we had ramen for lunch Guide put me on the bus to see the big sculptures. REALLY, these structures are HUGE, 4 stores high. Take a look!

Here is one of the stages.... 18 Meters tall x 30 meters wide x 20 Meters. 385 five-Ton truck loads of snow were hauled in for 3000 "Spent Personal"

And another...

A little smaller...

The crowds seemed to get in the way of a good picture... I am afraid these pictures aren't that interesting for you.

wow!

ahhh

couple more...
And on to the ice sculpture park

Since the ice sculptures did not take good photos I am just going to move on to a word from our sponsor

And now a little tid-bit about sock knitting, I seem to forget from time to time, one pair of socks takes 100grams of fingerweight yarn even if the package says 200 meters.. I try to kick myself to make things better, but that does not make another ball of yarn appear. As you can see my panda friend is holding one nearly completed sockamania sock.. this story is to be continued while I...

Cast on another pair, which panda's counterpart is modeling for us. The slip stitch cable sock... it is going quickly.
I would love to have showed the Pizza hut pizza we ate or the Wii games Guide and I played... but enough is enough. Hope you enjoyed!
Next adventure in about 2 weeks.... if I can't find one sooner.