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| Gaylord Palms Resort's ICE! Christmas Around the World |
It’s not too often Florida kids get to play in freezing cold
temperatures and throw snow balls. Even though we’ve had some bitterly cold temperatures
lately, it’s nothing like the nine-degree temperatures in Orlando at
Gaylord Palms Resort’s ICE! This year the theme is Christmas Around the World.
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| The Tubbs Family at ICE! |
Recently my family was invited to experience ICE! It is in
its fifteenth season and is self-guided walk through experience of a winter wonderland,
where two million pounds of colorful ice has been carved into larger-than-life
ice sculptures by some of the finest artisans from Harbin, China. This year the
sculptures represent holiday scenes from various nations including a two-story
ice sculpture with slides visitors can go down. There’s also ice sculptures of the traditional
Santa’s North Pole and a beautiful nativity scene created with crystal clear
ice. The nativity is my favorite part because it brings in the true meaning of
Christmas.
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| Graci and Randi inside ICE! |
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| Kadi, Graci and Randi at the nativity. |
My two daughters Randi (13) and Graci (11) are Florida girls,
so feeling the freezing cold temperatures and seeing ice sculptures isn’t
something they experience too often. Even
though their teeth were chattering at times, they loved it!
They could only stand the freezing temperatures for about a
half an hour, still it was plenty of time to see everything and go down the
slides, which probably was their favorite part. It truly is fascinating looking at the details
in the sculptures.
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| The slides made of ice inside ICE! |
