Ice Sculptures And Ice Slides

On Monday evening, we headed down to the city square with the Brubachers to look at the ice sculptures and for the kids to slide on the ice slides. It was so cold!! I had left the diaper bag in the van and had left Ella's scarf in there, so I had to put her hat on differently than if I'd had a scarf. A lady came up to Anneka and fixed her pants, coat, scarf, hat, etc... then she looked at Ella and gasped! She told me that it was very dangerous and the way I had Ella dressed was a nightmare. Normally I'd let it go, but I'd been worried about her hat situation to begin with. It was -17 outside, and I know that it IS dangerous. So Ella and I headed into a cafe across the street until I could get her dressed better. Above is what she looked like when the lady gasped.




It really is amazing all that they carve out of ice!





Here's a little kid slide for the tots.





These are all of the animals for the different years. I think this next year is the year of the rabbit (at least that's what the central ice sculpture looked like!)





Anneka loved sliding!




Here she is with Nathan on his back.




After the men had payed our phone bills, they came back and went on the bigger slides with the kids. They got going pretty fast!!




The kids were so cute. Anneka looks like a funny ragamuffin.



And, of course, we had to get our picture with Grandfather Frost and the Snow Granddaugther!

We don't get to drive around and look at Christmas lights like families do in the States, but this is pretty cool, too... arguably even cooler! =)