Monday, March 28, 2011

White Pass Winter Carnival

We could really get used to the weather here. We have not had any "real" snow since the first of the year. Most days are a perfect 50-60 degrees. What makes it even better is if we WANT snow it is only about 50 minutes away. We had heard that the local ski resort does a Winter Carnival every year for the kids and we put it on our "must do" list. It was really quite fun and....FREEE (you know how that is my favorite). Little Annie had to immediately "taste" the snow to be sure it was "good" (yuck). She decided she liked it :) We are pretty lucky that we have another kid that is pretty happy to just GO!
Here is one of the snow sculptures. It is a big bear surrounded by a "crystal" fence (broken icicles).
This was a really cool troll sculpture. There was a pretty dumb volunteer that on her shift decided to let the kids climb on the sculptures (that people were competing with and had spent days and days on). Keaton KNEW it was too good to last (and it was....she was corrected about 2 minutes later) lucky for him he had already scurried to the top.
This is Savannah and I in front of some kind of lizard thing?
There was a huge castle that you climbed to the top of and then you could slide down on tubes. There was also a cool tunnel going under it. I suggested Lee take Savannah down the tube hill. He reluctantly agreed.....
He shouldn't have......(luckily he kept her upright and she didn't freak)
Keaton was a pro and could have gone all day!!!
Here they are waiting in the line. You can see Annie peeking through the "teeth" of the castle.
This is Keaton in front of the dragon sculpture. He has a big hunk of the ice they used. It felt weird, like they treated it with something.
It was a pretty fun event. Next year if we are still around we will bring our own sled's so we can go down one of the other hills so we don't have to wait so long for the castle hill. Beautiful clear day....a pretty good day for the Palmers!

7 comments:

Terry Earley said...

Very fun. These kids are so cute, we need to see them soon. -wait, they are coming next month. Yeah for us!!

Deja said...

That does look super fun. And I jealous of good weather. Ours is LAME. You look so so super cute with that haircut, too.

Anonymous said...

That looks like fun. Probably a lot warmer than our sledding trip when you guys came last time.

Team Jensen said...

What a fun fun fun event!

belann said...

Sure do miss those kids (and you guys) Can't wait to see you.

Amy said...

That is super cool...get it cool?!

Amara said...

When you come I hope we've got nice weather for you. We'll have to partaaaay!