Thursday, December 5, 2013

Ice!


 I've been in a very cold place where I took a ride down a very cold slide.

 It was only 9 degrees.


 9 degrees is cold. You people who live where it gets that cold have my sympathies. I still have a headache from it.


 The Mister and I went to the Ice! exhibit at National Harbor.


 You can see we had a lot of fun.


 They make you wear these big blue coats so you don't freeze anything important off. I loved my coat. I wanted to keep it but they said no.


 Everything was made of carved ice.


 I got to drive an ice taxi. Not really but I got to sit in it. Beep, beep.

 As if it wasn't cold enough, I shoved my head in a giant ice snowflake.


There was an enormous nativity scene that was sculpted of clear ice with a light show. Everyone was oohing and ahhing over it but I thought it was scary. I've seen too much Dr. Who. I know what things that look like this can do to you.


It was weird to come back out into the relative warmth of a 40 degree day. My camera took a while to adjust as did my head.
We ended the day with lunch where I had a Chicago veggie dog that was yummo. I was so hungry that I forgot to take a photo of it. I felt like I had just walked through Alaska-still do.

5 comments:

  1. Welcome to my world! We have windshields of 20 to 25 below zero today! 9 degrees actually sounds balmy. LOL If we had all that fun stuff to play on I wouldn't mind the cold. :-) Looks like you guys had a great time.

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  2. Brrrrrr what a fantastic interesting post! ! you were certainly Fffffffrozen in time

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  3. "Everyone was oohing and ahhing over it but I thought it was scary. I've seen too much Dr. Who. I know what things that look like this can do to you." HAHAHA! You are too funny!

    Great post, love the pictures and narrative. Looks like you are having a lot of fun. Very "cool", ha!

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  4. wow that looks like a really great time!

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