A few weeks ago we went to St. Louis to visit an event called the "Ice Carnival 2011" in an eclectic area of the city called the Delmar Loop. It is a long street filled with many differnt boutiques, galleries, and restaurants etc. It was really fun as the Ice Carnival had different mini events going on throughout the streets. They had ice scupltures along the street representing every business. There were giant ice blocks that you could take a whack at with a giant hammer... Ice slides and putt putt for the kids. We witnessed an ice scupltor creating a masterpiece. We had a lot of fun going into all the different shops and art galleries and had sushi for lunch. There were different street performers throughout the carnival such as hoola hoop dancers--weird i know, but they danced with hoola hoops to some drums and it was awesome to behold. Each vendor had a cooler filled with ice cubes that had gold coins frozen in the middle. It was fun to collect them, smash them open on the sidewalk and discover if the gold coin was money or chocolate.
Really great day until Judah tripped on the sidewalk and caught himself with his face. He started screaming and crying bloody murder and his upper lip swelled up to triple the size and gushed blood. I was torn between wanting to get him help and wanting him to stop screaming so loud (top of his lungs). So I scooped him up and ran down the street whispering into his ear "its ok, stop crying, shhhhhh, please stop crying, shut up...its ok..shhhh.." until we made it to a Coldstone Creamery. I pushed past the patrons licking ice cream cones until we made it to the bathroom. I started to sort of panic and ask for my mommy... I realized this was the first time Judah has really hurt himself. He has had a few bumps and bruises but never gushing blood or swollen body parts. We were able to control the bleeding and get some ice from the Coldstone workers. Luckily it was just his upper lip and it wasnt busted too bad. He healed within a day! Pobrecito. I gave him a piggy back ride the rest of the day since he said he didnt think he could walk anymore because of his lip. of course.
Ice cubes from the end of the rainbow
I thought to myself, hey, He's six, time for a tattoo....
Hardcore! (grandma it is fake)
I love the irony
Ice Slides!!!!!
Me, looking gorgeous. : ) really just happy to be eating Sushi!
Ice Scuplture putt putt course!
Judah, you are getting too close to the man weilding a chain saw against slippery ice
He gotchya! (not with the chain saw... )
Judah rather enjoyed the attention. He's my son.
Almost done!
A melting pot made of ice.... hehe
we couldnt get enough of the sculpture photo ops
This is my greenville friend, Colleen who went with us
My poor baby after the "incident"
We went by again and the scuplture was complete... what a masterpiece!
OOoo La la..... sizzling hot ice sculptures...
A great day.