Ice Exhibit at the Gaylord Texan

I have wanted to visit the Ice Exhibit before we moved to Germany. It's been that long! This year we finally went. Caden loved it! He's really been into ice lately, making it various shapes, watching it melt, wanted to see it steam. So this exhibit was perfect for him. He literally jumped for joy when he found out we were going to an ice exhibit.

As a special treat, we took the kids to eat lunch at The Rainforest Cafe before we went to the exhibit. Caden and Gracie both loved the restaurant. They both liked seeing the animals and all the excitement that goes on in the rain forest. 

The Gaylord Texan was decked out for Christmas. It was fun walking around the hotel and checking out all of their displays. But the highlight was definitely the ice exhibit which featured over 2 million pounds of ice. This year's theme was Frosty the Snowman. We took Caden to see the play, Frosty the Snowman last year so he was familiar with it. There were some ice slides that were fun to ride down. The exhibit ended with a beautiful ice nativity scene. We are really glad we went, even though it was literally freezing cold! After we were done, we got some hot chocolate to warm us up. We hope to make this an annual event! It really is a neat event. If you are ever around North Texas at Christmastime, I recommend going to see it. Here are some pictures from our visit. The guys from China who come and sculpt the ice really do a fantastic job!

Goofty brother at Rainforest Cafe

Waiting in line for the ice exhibit

There was a lot of excitement

Walking to the entrance, we all got parkas

Large Frosty

Me and my cute snow boy!

Ice slides, lots of fun!

Princess was cold and got tired of waiting for us all to go down the ice slides

It was fun!

The guys!

Caden got an ice apple at the end of our exhibit

He loved his ice apple but we had to give it away because it was melting and messy!

There's also snow tubing

 

They are such sweet kids!