Mia-tachi no tabi - Day 7 - Sapporo

Since we all went to bed early last night, we woke up early enough to take an earlier train and get into Sapporo ahead of schedule. We checked into our hotel, which is really cute, and headed to the Sapporo Beer Museum:

It wasn't very large and the displays were only in 

Japanese, but the exhibits were fun. Especially the ones with the little models showing the production process:

After viewing the museum, we tried beer. Or, my mom ordered a sampler and Rich and I got sodas, then we tried sips of her beer. It was interesting, but neither of us liked them.

After that we wandered around a bit and then returned to the hotel to wait for Myra to arrive. We saw two weddings and a cool phone:

And then Myra finally arrived! She got a little lost on the way to the hotel and took twice as long as she should have.

After giving Myra all her presents, souvenirs from Nikko and Hakodate as well as stuff from home, we set out to view the festival and hunt for Genghis Khan. The festival filled blocks of Odori Park and was crowded and smelled good. Which was a little painful, considering we had skipped 

lunch and were now starving.

 So after a bit we left and found the Genghis Khan restaurant. We got the all you can eat option, though for some reason we still can't figure out, when we initially placed the order the waiter thought we were ordering a la carte. But I repeatedly pointed at the correct menu item and Myra asked what drinks were included with it, so we can't figure out what confused him. But we got it cleared up and enjoyed our delicious meal:

So Ganghis Khan, or in Japanese ジンギスカン (jangisukan), is a lamb BBQ where you cook lamb and veggies on a grill at your table. The all you can eat includes all the meat, veggies, rice, and drinks we could consume in 100 minutes. It was fantastic and the most food any of us have eaten since we got to Japan.

Afterwards we pried ourselves from our seats, checked the festival one more time, saw Sapporo Tower all lit up:

And then went back to the hotel to finally sleep. Except everyone wanted to shower first, then we played a card game (I won 2 out of 3 after a slow start), then we went to sleep.