ICE! at the Gaylord Texan

Yesterday, I took the kids to see the ICE! exhibit at the Gaylord Texan over in Grapevine. This year’s theme is “How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and I think it might have been my favorite exhibit. This is the 5th year they have done it.

They keep it a frigid 9° F in the exhibit, because, well, duh, they need to keep the ice sculptures frozen solid. However, as we learned yesterday, apparently the colder it is outside, the colder they need to make it in the exhibit. So, yesterday was pretty much the coldest day we’ve had in 2009 so far, 18° that morning, which apparently meant, they needed to make it –3° F in there. Talk about cold!!

I tried to get through there as fast as possible, but still get our money worth. I think the kids would have stayed playing on the ice slides all day. I went down twice, Jonathan went down 4 or 5 times and Kaylin went down 6 or 7 times before I left with Jonathan. No worries, my mom went with us, so she stayed in there with Kaylin, but Jonathan was absolutely freezing and I was worried my camera or phone were going to freeze. They had warned us to keep them warm, as they had at least 10 freeze within the last hour. Of course, mom kept asking Kaylin if she was ready to go yet, and Kaylin kept saying no, but once mom said that was enough and they were leaving Kaylin said her feet were freezing!

Jonathan coming down the ice slide.

Kaylin coming down the other ice slide.

Jonathan and mommy trying to keep warm.

Poor Jonathan, do you see how big that parka was on him?