Incredible Ice Museum

This is the ice museum that you see in all of the pictures.  The two artists have put over 350 hours into everything in this museum.. They made the building in a cathedral shape.  Wait until you see the inside!

 These ice blocks are what they use to carve down into shapes, etc.

 Depending on the shape, some showed better with a camera flash on and some were better without. This is a polar bear.

 A samurai.

 The bar area!

 The "wedding chapel".  The two artists were the first people married in it after they completed it.  Apparently, the weddings are very quick. I wonder why...

 Coca-cola bear

 I'm in an igloo!

 We had taken a video from the inside so we could get the acoustics, but we're having problems with the video, so this will have to do.  Inside the igloo, they had created a xylophone which you could actually play!

 The back of the cathedral shaped building.  There are actually four "bedrooms" where you can stay for $600 a night.  They provide the blankets, sleeping bags, etc, but only 20% of people who attempt it actually make it overnight.  80% give up.  Luckily for them, the $600 covers a room in the lodge as well so if they don't make it, or need a restroom, they have a place to go.

 The Christmas room.  Everything in these rooms is made of ice, except the lights.

 This is the bed in the Christmas room.

 This is the polar bear room.  Jeff was sure enjoying the bed!

 Without the flash, the colors were beautiful!

 They called this the "Angel".  By tradition, she guards them.

 A fake toiled (made of ice).  The tour guide said that it used to be so realistic that people actually tried to use it, so they had to make it a little less realistic.

 With this ice ball, they drilled in from the bottom and packed each tunnel with snow, and then finished it.

 This is the bed in the third room.

 A beautiful carving of a rose in the "rose" room.

 This is two knights jousting.  The attention to detail was incredible!  See how the blue knight is stranding up in his stirrups as he thrusts his lance at the other guy?

 So that you can the other detail better, look at how the lance has slammed against his chest and how it splinters! The knight is leaning back, with his left leg lifting as if he's about to be thrown from the saddle!

 Happy Halloween?

 This is the bar again.  You can see the seats on the bottom left.  They're blocks of ice, rounded and then covered with caribou hide to keep your bum warm.

 Our tickets included 2 appletinis, in ice glasses! We even got to keep the glasses. :)  Of course they melted later.

 This is supposed to be Sarah Palin, but I can't see it. Maybe you can?

 This is their workstation.

 These are the blocks they put on a lathe and turn into martini glasses!

 A seahorse

 Wall sconces

 Oh, btw, even the chandeliers were made of ice.

 And the garbage can!