Today we took a little trip out to Lake Towada to see the snow festival they put on every winter. It involves normal festival fare- food, activities, family fun for all- plus a lot of snow. It was cool. Well, cool-ish. We enjoyed it because we had nothing better to do on this Saturday afternoon, but it wasn't mind-blowing or anything. After the 2 hour drive to get out there, walking around for 20 minutes and looking at snow in various forms was a little anti-climactic. But it was nice to spend an afternoon doing something other than snowboarding during the long, boring winter. It was snowing too much for me to feel safe bringing out my cool camera, but I took some shots with my old cheapy. 
Various snow/ice sculptures were on display. Corey found Princess Unicorn- her horn can pierce the sky (anyone who gets the reference is automatically cool).
They had a snow stage with some cool images (which I think is used for band performances at night time before a fireworks show- this probably would have been a better place to visit at night). Oh, and these pics weren't taken in black and white- the day really was just this dreary.
And finally, this cute and impossible-to-get-away-from kitty was perched outside the Towadako post office. 
Tonight (or tomorrow for me, depending on when it pops up on iTunes), is the premier of the last season of the greatest show in the world. I'm craaaazy excited, but also a little sad. Soon the mysteries will be solved (we hope), and the show will be over. No more Jack, Ben, Lock, Kate, Sawyer, Sayid, Hurley, Jin, Sun, blah blah... (ok, there are a lot of characters on this show, you get the idea).
