I know that I haven't posted in a while, that is mostly due to the fact that it has been so cold around here, but this last weekend the thermostat broke into the 40's!! We luckily had plans to go with some friends to Cedarburg (a quaint little tourist town to the north) to watch the ice sculpting competition and spend the day outside. We got to Cedarburg in time to watch the small town parade which included fire trucks, the town major and judge, a drum line (no band), and one or two home made floats for local businesses. The theme this year was the medieval ages. The ice sculptors started with a large ice block in the morning and were places along the sidewalk of main street. There was a prize of $500 for the winner. There was only one bad part to the record high temps here were that the ice sculptures started melting, but we still had fun and tried to get some pictures of this little event.
Here Brad is trying his hand at sculpting, it is hard to break ice with ice though.
Sir Brad once again is trying to pull the sward our of the stone.
Now that is a really big goblet.
This is King Swing
Here is a sculptor making a lion
You can see the sculptors on the sidewalk and people just walking around the festival.
Here is a kneeling knight.
This one was our favorite, the wizard with his crystal ball and a dragon on the other side.
They even had free ice skating...
No wonder they said skate at your own risk.
2 comments:
Those sculptures are really cool! I wouldn't have scated either, but there is an ice rink here INSIDE of the mall we have yet to try out.
Looks like fun... those sculptures are pretty sweet. Its no Disneyland that's for sure! :) (EEEEK! I'm too excited, we HAVE to go!! ) Glad you're finding stuff to do in the Arctic of Wisconsin!
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