what do you see?

OK, I admit it now, it's cold and I want spring to come! Maybe because we spent so much time outside today, walking around the snow festival. We started by going up through Susukino, seeing the ice-statues which are made mostly by well-known companies and shops in the area (and also very visibly sponsored by them too). These were good - nice shiny clear ice which looked good in the sun when it came out from time to time.
After a welcomingly spicy lunch at Cancun, we went to the main Odori site and walked all the way down and back. The sculptures here are pretty impressive in their size, a lot of work went into them and worth seeing, if you live reasonably near...I'm not sure how satisfied you'd feel if you flew in specially from Tokyo, or Kyushu...or China, Canada...as a lot of people seemed to have! The most popular sculpture definitely seemed to be Yon-sama (if you don't know who that is, think yourself extremely lucky - a grown-up Korean Harry Potter is all I can say) , or at least a huge likeness of his disembodied but still grinning head.
Anyway, after a bit more indecisiveness and time-killing until it got darker we went back and saw the evening festivities - lots of coloured lights and some really cold looking singers performing (we felt pretty sorry for the girl playing the keyboard, with rapidly reddening and frost-bitten hands...). It's definitely better at night when you can't see so much of the advertising and dirtier parts of the sculptures. Then after yakitori and other skewered stuff, we headed back through s'kino again looking at the now lit up ice-owls, eagles, peacocks, fish etc on the way through.
So the thorny issue of pictures rears its ugly head now (imagine that as a statue)...Well, we took plenty, I'll have to do some resizing and other jiggery pokery, and jiggery pokery definitely has to be left until a Saturday, so for now here's just one eagle: