Ice Castles and Trains

After Brian and Darcy's sealing, we went to Heber and Midway to do some site seeing.

Papa Kenison is telling us how the mechanics of this coal car work.

All aboard!

We're just happy to be here.

There goes the Heber Creeper.

We still had some time to kill before the Ice Castle opened up so we took a stroll through a little country store. They had some wild, hand-made stick horses. "Giddy-up!"

Outside the Midway Ice Castle.

Maintenance man ditching his tiller-thing by the icicle nursery.

Our tour began here. As you can and will see, the architecture of the castle is fabulous!

"Fancy seein' you here. You come here often? "

Andrea's legendary hair swoosh!

Andrea admires the decor. 

"You said what?!"

"Yeah, that's what I thought you said."

Narrow passages make for some close encounters...

Looking up through on of the arch ways.

Chandeliers overhead.

Admiring the natural lighting.

Cutest little frozen boy in the whole castle!

Colton didn't say he was taking a panorama, so Malea was looking around as he was taking the picture. Hence the reason she has a gopher nose...

The big court yard area inside the Ice Castle.

Malea's little handsome ice Prince!

Icicle nursery from inside the castle.

The icicles from the nursery are taken and grafted into to the existing structures or put together like this to start the formation of another wall to add on another wing.

It was a wee bit nippy...

As you can see, Colton was freezing his buns off!

However, the Ice Castle was equipped with and in-house waterfall.

Andrea is a regular little model...

The castle tour was loverly, but our final decision was that it's probably not the castle we'd want to live in. In short, we are still in search of a suitable castle. ;)