Ice Carving Festival

If you’ve been following my blog for any amount of time, you know that I am not a big fan of winter, & really am not a big fan of snow either. There is, however, one little event that I actually like to go outside for, once a year. The Ice Festival! We’ve braved the cold for this festival just past three years now, and I am still impressed with their carving talent!

Yes it was biting cold, but even my girls didn’t mind going… might have something to do with the hot chocolate & cupcakes that await them in the sidedoor deli. It’s very nice to have a reason to walk around the plaza and get some fresh air in the dead of winter. We had awesome visuals to keep us moving, I mean just look at this talent!

   

It was exciting to see a lady carver out there as well, representing women with power tools. She was super nice, and it was lovely to have my girls see that girls can use chainsaws and such as well ;)

The girls and I had a nice time despite the cold. The mocha, hot chocolate, & cupcakes didn’t hurt either….. Like the sign says, Life is Good!

Ice Festival 2011

I will start by saying, I know I have been a Debbie Downer about Old Man Winter lately. I figured it is about time I do a nice post about some of the the perks to having a cold season where you live... My family & I went to a ice carving festival in our town a few weekends ago, and it was a nice experience for my girls to have. They are 4 and pushing 3, so I like to give them new experiences every chance I can. The world is just opening up to them, and this makes me feel like a kid again myself, so for that I braved the cold!

As you can see there were a TON of sculptures going on that day. When we first pulled up to the plaza this was taking place at, we stumbled upon this guy still carving. Almost every store/restaurant had an ice sculpture in front of it. The girls and I loved them! Alisa got her picture taken by Harry Potter, that you see in the bottom right of this collage. My favorite was a tie between the "Life Is Good" skier {that was the moto for the day} & the canoe boat. I have to say, I am not a big fan of beer at all, and in fact have never even tried this brand. :) The sculpture that is in the middle, bottom of this collage, was taken for my father. His favorite movie is "The Christmas Story", and this was a wink and a nod to that movie {I am only to assume anyway}.

Now this little beauty! This had to be the icing on the cake {pun intended}. The little circle in the bottom left corner? It says "Will carve for food". I think we are super lucky to have a Gino's East here in my town, and I would go every Friday if I could. Heck I would even try my hand at carving for some of that yummy pizza :) But, overall, I was in awe when I saw this... and all of these sculptures.