Last night Bobby and I enjoyed ‘Ice’ at the hotel. Imagine a 14,000 square foot structure, kept at 9 degrees, did you get that,? 9 Freezing DEGREES!!! Filled with two million pounds of hand-carved ICE! The ice was carved into magical life-sized holiday monuments and sculptures by 40 artisans from Harbin China. There were a total of 1,400 LED lights frozen within the ice producing some really pretty lighting effects on the already beautiful carved ice. The attraction definitely kept us a chillin’. We were given parkas at the entrance to keep us warm but we brought our scarves and gloves from home to keep our hands and necks from freezing. As we passed through a themed portal, we left the last bit of sunny Texas behind. The ice presentation was definitely a freezing fantasy land, but not a place where we were comfortable spending the night or anything like that.

Can you tell by the end of our visit that our noses match Rudolph’s? Seriously, if we would have stayed in there any longer, I believe my nose would have snapped off. The rest of me was nice and warm considering I had 3 layers plus the parka they gave us, but my face came pretty close to freezing in there.

Ice was well worth the visit and we truly enjoyed all the beautiful displays of art.