Kids eXtreme Ice Festival

Last weekend Wyoming State Parks & Trails hosted the annual Kids eXtreme Ice Festival.  The write up on it made it sound pretty spectacular.....ice sculptors, carriage rides, sledding, snowmobile simulator, games etc. so we decided we better check it out. 

It had snowed during the night and continued into the morning so we debated on whether to make the effort.  Since it was held downtown...within walking distance for us ....we figured we may as well.

It was sooo cold and other than a few runs down the sledding hill, the girls really didn't want to do anything....they kinda like to have the hills all to themselves and they weren't really digging having all those people to share them with ;)

 I don't know if it was the weather or what, but the ice sculptors were nowhere to be found and the completed sculptures were pretty dismal.  We did take cover in this igloo that was pretty neat.

It didn't take long before Mark and I were wishing we hadn't made the effort.  It probably could have been pretty neat, although the temperature and snow didn't help the cause.  This guy may have been the best thing about the whole event :/