Friday, December 25, 2009

What the gladsome tidings?!

Christmas everybody!! Sooo...how was it? What'd you do, what'd you get, was it fun, and is it coolish (weather-wise) there? Guess what? My parents finally caved and are now putting up with a Wii. And I will use my new camera to take a picture.




We got two games, two controllers, and a nunchuck. Or however you spell that. And I guess I'll put some more pictures on.



So there was this guy who made huge ice sculpture (this wasn't even the biggest, and it was about 10 feet tall) by putting a few icicles together with packed snow, and then sprinkling water on it over night. He would do this over and over until It got bigger. And the little sprinklers on the top of each one would periodically mist the sculpture, which would create more icicles. It was really cool. Oh and sorry the picture is tilted. It wasn't when it was stored. So here's some more of his work.


This is the guy that does it. I don't know his name. I think that this is one of the biggest sculptures. They're all made entirely out of ice. Can you see the sprinkler?



He has little tables like this by most of the sculptures. The
mist from the sprinklers creates these icicles, and then he uses snow to
pack them onto the sculpture which is then misted to freeze it on.


The bottom of one of the sculptures/castles. This is one of the few where
my camera caught the blue in all of them.




There were some really cool textures on these.


I don't know how he made this, but it wasn't attached to anything.
I mean, it wasn't attached to a sculpture. It was sitting all by its lonesome.
But it wasn't floating.



On the way back from the ice castles, I tried to take pictures of Wesley's hat hair. But first, I had to take off his hood.


Sneaky, sneaky.

The following images are of what happened next, not necessarily in order of occurrence.







I would say...semi-success


He tried to get me back. But then I took the camera.


Just to clarify... he got a rugby ball for Christmas (for those of you who may or may not know, he was on a rugby team) which he carried around for the next 2-3 days. So expect it to crop up in pictures.

Speaking of presents...

If you get new sweats, you have to try them on.


(he said I could)






You have to watch this just for his face at the end.
Pay no attention to the words. It's only 11 seconds long.



And just for fun, here's mom and dad, I think talking to Curtie or Carl.


Oh, and my camera would be mad if I didn't credit all pictures to him.
(Plus, notice my new BYU hoodie. It's so comfortable.)

Hope you enjoyed the pictures, and for those of you complaining--don't get me started. I didn't even use a tenth of what I actually have. Signing off, this is Cara Haynie.