ICE!!!

I have been wanting to go to the ICE! exhibit at the Gaylord for awhile now and this year we finally managed it! The theme this year is How The Grinch Stole Christmas. It was a lot of fun but next year I would definitely try to go on a week day or as early as possible on a weekend! 2:3o on a Sunday...not a good time to go. I bought tickets on line for a specific time but that didn't mean really anything. They were letting everyone in anyway! We just didn't have to stand in line to buy tickets. The line was about 45 minutes long. They handed out the blue parkas while we were in line. We waited until we got up to the corner we thought the entrance was around and we all put our coats on. We turned the corner though and just saw a sea of blue! It was like another 30 minutes to get in at that point. I had my coat on under their parka plus a scarf and hat. I was dying!! But you don't want to take it all off because number one you still have to carry it all and number two you have all your purses and diaper bags you are carrying too! We finally got in and even though it was chilly, since we were so hot to start with it didn't really seem all that bad! I had brought gloves but everyone else's hands got pretty cold. So I would suggest gloves! The line for the slide stunk too. I was the only one to go up with Kaily and Maddi because Maddi was crying to go down the slide. So, like a good mom, I took her. But when I got up there, they wouldn't let me slide because I had heels on my boots! I was so mad! I had to send the two girls down and walk back down the stairs through the line going against the flow! They wouldn't even let me take them off and slide in my socks. The girl told me I could trade shoes with someone...but I was like "Hello...do you see anyone else with me?" So dumb. But we made it out of there with some good pics!

This is just the entrance sign. It's not made out of ice.

They have a guy taking pictures about halfway through the line that you can buy afterwards. Ours turned out good! This is scanned in so the quality doesn't look all that great here. This is where we thought we were going to get to go in but then we turned the corner and...ahhh!

Sadee in her parka.

Sadee and Uncle Michael.

I had come prepared with Maddi's big coat, a fleece jacket under that, and then she was wearing a sweater. I put one of my scarfs on her plus a hat! She was toasty! I forgot her gloves but her jacket was big enough for her to slide her hands in the sleeves.

Finally inside! This is the first ice sculpture we saw.

Sadee fell asleep! How can she sleep in 9 degree temperatures?

Kaily going down the slide.

Maddi at the top of the slide.

The girl layed her down to slide. She also had to put a blue parka on to slide on. Which meant she now had 3 coats on, on top of a sweater! She could barely move!

She got to the bottom and couldn't move because of all the coats. She was waving her arms around until one them at the bottom grabbed her! Too funny!

She had had enough here.

Maddi saying "My Bud!"