The Ice Museum

We went to the Ice museum the night before I came home.
The ice museum is in the town called Chena Hot Springs.

A knight jousting

A Wedding Chapel

A candle

The whole Museum.

A bear bed .

People can stay in this room for a night. The cost for the room is $525.00 per night. So far they have had 2 people make it the whole night. The bed is made of ice and there are two animal pelts on the bed. I am sure you can bring your own sleeping bag as well. The room is 20 degrees Fahrenheit.

An Igloo

The knights jousting again.

A Glass. : )

Pete, Dolores, and me at the ice bar.

The outside of the ice museum

An ice bed

An ice outhouse

Me in an ice bed

This is outside of the Chena Hot Springs. The frost has covered the trees and the basketball hoop.

Stuck in the ditch, the Museum, and Ester

I drove Dolores to work today and found a person who had run off the road. We attempted to tow him out but couldn't. The police came and offered to help him but he refused the help and a few hours later he was still in the ditch. Eventually he got the truck out.

Pete took me to the University Museum which was very cool. They had a lot of exhibits including a big Grizzly Bear, and a crazy outhouse. There was also an exhibit on the area that Pete is studying.

Ooooh oh a grizzly.....!!!!!!

Good thing they had an outhouse on premises , the grizzly was scary

The Alaskan Range was out again and I got "a few" Pictures.

In the evening we went to the Blue Loon for dinner which is near Ester, AK. Afterwards Dolores went home and Pete and I went and shot pool in a bar in Ester.

This is a neat car that was parked outside of the Blue Loon in Ester

Here is the pool table where Pete beat me 3-2....

This is where I work on the blog. The place is called Gulliver's and they have free coffee, good bagels, and free WIFI. What else could I want......

Tomorrow we will be going to Chena Hot Springs.

A trip to Santa's house

This morning the temperature was 10 degrees above zero and it almost felt warm. We had a snow storm last night that left us with 10 inches of snow on the ground this morning.

We had to shovel out which wasn't so bad because the snow is so light and dry up here. While 10 inches of snow overnight might close schools in Wisconsin, in Alaska schools stay open and the streets were all plowed by 8:00 . They don't use salt on the streets because if the snow melted, it would turn straight to ice and the road would be very dangerous. They put pea gravel on the roads which provides some grip. Overall the streets are very snow covered all the time but in good condition for driving.























Today we went to The North Pole to visit Santa and thank him for all the gifts. Unfortunately he wasn't home, I heard he was still in Florida on vacation. We did look around the house and took some pictures. We were very lucky to find Dasher and Prancer in the back yard. I am sure they were resting up from Christmas.

This morning I saw some of the Alaska range from the top of the hill that Pete's school is on.

After the North Pole I went to the Cold Climate Housing Research Center and took a tour of a building that they are using to test different features of construction to maximize energy and keeping the environment clean in the process.























Pete, Dolores and I went to Geraldo's pizza place for dinner. Pete and I discovered Geraldo's when I drove him up to Alaska a few years ago. While we were in Geraldo's we noticed a picture on the wall which is the same picture that I took of Venice and currently have on my family room wall. We took a picture though it is not that clear.