ICE

So we are the parents that attempted the Gaylord's ICE exhibit with our 20 month old. Not sure why, but yes...we are "those" parents. What were we thinking! Luckily we had our good friends the Fergusons with us, who also had a toddler on hand. Chaos is a good word to describe the adventure. After a two hour line, that in our defense we had no idea was going to take that amount of time, we finally made it to the ice which continued to be another line. Did I mention that they don't allow strollers in there. Uh, yeah, try putting on a huge parka over your huge pregnant self, then holding a toddler that does not fit into the oversized one that was provided for her. Doesn't exactly work. It's kind of like a marshmallow trying to hold a baby marshmallow...a heavy marshmallow that is. Luckily Isaac had the baby marshmallow most of the time. And somehow my daughter was still awake and not screaming her head off by the time we entered it.

And because the parka was so enourmous, Addie couldn't exactly walk. She attempted and fell flat on her face. Frozen face that is...ouch!

The temperature in the exhibit was 3 degrees. For those of you up north (Sarah), this is probably not that big of a deal, however, I was freezing in there with the huge parka on. I don't know how you do it up there Sarah?

This girl still hasn't caught on to smiling for the camera. Even with Dad acting goofy. One day she'll get it :)

And here we are trying to get her hands out of the sleeves. IMPOSSIBLE! Somehow Isaac eventually forced them out.

The exhibit theme was The Grinch. Very cute and very impressive. Quite an experience. Not sure we would do it again. At least not without some major planning ahead of time. Oh, the ignorance of first time parents :)