what do you see?

And they say English weather is changeable! It was bright and sunny all day today, in fact up to the moment I got on the train from Chitose earlier this evening, then about a minute later there's a major blizzard dumping quite a few inches of snow already. I've been wondering what they do with the snow sculptures in these situations, do they just wait and then brush/blow/suck the snow off somehow? Does anyone know?
The rumours of crowdedness during the festival are true it seems, although all the extra people in the city seem to be perpetually arriving or leaving, along with their wheeled suitcases. And the authorities have dusted off a lot of extra English signs and announcements (if you can dust off an announcement?) for the duration.
Other excitement at the moment includes the issuing of special edition tickets ("withyou cards") which of course I'm collecting in the vain hope they'll be worth something someday.
As it's another obscure holiday tomorrow, we'll finally go to see the snow sculptures in all their glory and gets lots of pictures. Can you wait?!