Gaylord ICE!!!

We decided to head out to the Gaylord Texan resort in Grapevine (by the airport) yesterday to see their giant ICE exhibit (basically rooms all made out of ice, filled with ice sculptures of animals, trucks, people, a sleigh, the Nativity scene, etc.). It was crowded but we still had a great time.

There is SO much to see at the Gaylord, even aside from ICE! There were Santa statues, a giant Christmas tree, a trolley and little train going on a track, a guy painted gold who pretended to be a statue sitting on a bench but would then freak people out by suddenly moving (we tried to tell Jacks he was a statue and he watched closely for a sec and then delighted in telling us we were wrong), a cowboy doing tricks with a lasso, you could actually visit Santa, etc. It's pretty amazing.

They have to keep the ICE exhibit at a certain temperature of course, and OMG 9 degrees is freakin' cold. Cody hated the weather so he and Anthony made their way through pretty quickly, but Jacks and I braved the final room which had a giant slide made of ice. I let him choose whether he wanted to do the children's one or the big one (he was tall enough to do either) and he picked the tall one. He LOVED it!

The price is pretty prohibitive....$60-something and we didn't even have to pay for Cody. But it's really cool and worth checking out at least once.

Picture Captions:

1) Right before we went in to the actual exhibit, we put our coats on and got ready for the cold...you can see Cody is still relatively happy here. This is the only pic you'll see of him from yesterday.

2) Jackson was SO excited to get all dressed up with his hat and gloves, etc....especially since it was 80 degrees outside.

3) Once we walked in, the cold hit us right away! (note how Jackson's gloves aren't actually on his fingers....he's just got his hands balled into fists inside them LOL)

4) This is my favorite pic...he was just in awe of it all!

5) But still, unwilling to pose with Daddy. Right after that pic, Anthony took Cody out (and the stroller and camera) to go listen to the teenagers singing Christmas songs out front, and Jacks and I stayed in to go on the slide.

What a fun Christmassy way to spend a Saturday afternoon!