This past Saturday some friends invited us to join them for a little winter fun in the capital.
Winterlude is an annual winter festival
featuring ice and snow sculptures, skating on the canal, playgrounds made of snow, tubing, kiddie skiing, food, etc. It is the polar (
haha:) opposite of the festivals we grew up with which often revolved around roasting summer temperatures!

This was the 'welcoming' sculpture on the Quebec side of the river.
(snowboarders and pine trees carved into a massive snowbank)

Can't go without the self portrait....

Each province was represented by a snow sculptor carved by one of their 'own' artists. I can't
remember which province this one was, but it certainly was a
popular for the whole of Canada! Hockey Skates!

I was kinda of partial to this one...
This was Ontario's. ( A man ice fishing for a very unwilling fish)

We did get out and skate for a bit on the canal. Tons of people!
Winterlude is a three week
festival, but it weekends are pretty busy!

An ice bench. There were many of them. I had to try it out.

Rodger's Mobil
sponsored a booth and did a little advertising by freezing their products in ice blocks. No shoplifting at all.

One of the
massive ice sculptures.


This is where the ice comes from. Boxes. I really do hope it is made in Canada!
The ice/snow slides.

Tess and
Boaz headed down...

The line to get on the really long slide....

And the snow maze. It was the perfect height. Now I did take some pics of Bert, but he did the culling and I can't find any of them.
6 comments:
Oh, what fun. Those are going to be days, long to be remembered.
Iv'e been sent lots of ice sculptors before on e-mail, but you got to see them in person. Arn't they really something?
Looks like you had so much fun doing so many things in one day. Glad ou have friens you can enjoy.
Very Cool! you don't see that kind of stuff in Arkansas.
awesome fun - glad you got to go and enjoy the day - thanks for sharing it with us!!
Really is amazing. Looks awfully cold from a southern point of view. Glad you could go and see something so different from your normal. What a lot of people, glad you didn't fall while skateing. Bert wouldn't have been able to find you back.
How fun!!
Wow!!! This place looks awesome! You guys have the best adventures together!!
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