ICE...

Merry Christmas :)


One of the only times Laine walked in the whole exhibit.



I managed to snap a few pics of the Charlie Brown characters.

Her face pretty much sums up our trip.

Brian and his adorable girlfriend, Beth.

This year my family wanted to all go to ICE at the Gaylord Texan, so Friday morning I called and made reservations for the 4:00 show. The lady on the phone said to arrive about 45 minutes early to insure parking time and getting our tickets from will call on time. We did as she said and were ready for the show at about 3:50. Thankfully we didn't rush because the 3:30 show was running late and we didn't get called until about 4:15. We then waited in what would be the first of about 6 different lines. Let's have a quick backflash to last year...Jackson and I went to ICE with some people from his work and we honestly bought tickets and walked STRAIGHT in to the exhibit. Back to the now...Once they called us in to the first line, we waited about half an hour to walk in to a second room where they made us watch a video about how the exhibit was made...That was all great and then they had us stand in another line to get a parka. It seems like this would have taken about 10 minutes, but instead it turned in to another hour long wait. Now it's about 5:15 and Laine understandbly is getting hungry, tired and BORED! She did really well given the situation. Once we got our parkas, we waited in another..wait for it..LINE! Now it's about 5:30 and everyone is pretty much ready to get out of there. We finally made it in to the exhibit..

Once we were inside, Laine was crying because the parka they gave her was made for an 8 year old, it was really loud because of the generators keeping the ice frozen and don't forget we've been waiting in line for about an hour and a half now. As we make our way through we were literally standing on top of other people. At one point two men got in a fist fight over God knows what and Laine now was pretty miserable and her hands were bright red because they were so cold. We made our way through and towards the end the people were more spread out...although there were still LOTS of them around so Laine chilled out a little and we tolerated the rest of the experience. I forced her to go through the doghouse so I could get a picture of her pretending to have fun, but really we all just wanted to make our way out the door! Our lesson we learned was absolutely, under no circumstance would go to another ICE exhibit as long as we live the day after Thanksgiving..