Ice on the Avenue

Wow, three posts in three days, I may actually be getting back into the swing of the blogging world.  A couple of weekends ago, it was Ice on the Avenue, in Old Colorado City and loving any chance to walk around the quaint street, I rounded up a few people to play among ice sculptures and festive atmosphere.  There was even a little gold panning station set up to try your hand at finding some gold flecks...I have as of now given up on it being my back up plan...too hard!

So the whole premise of Ice on the Avenue is that they hire an ice carver and he works his way up and down the street leaving sculptures in various places along the road.  This meant it was more of a treasure hunt to find the pieces and there was a crowd at his current location watching and waiting to see what was about to emerge from the ice.

Already in place by the time of our arrival, was an ice stand outside of the ice cream shop...so we all leaned in for a pic!

Oh no! Ryan what did you do!!!??!? Kodak moment with a found piece of broken ice tossed to the side.

After walking up and down the street and a convenient stop in yobel market, we stopped in the little French bakery and I had a scrumptious cinnamon baguette...delicious!

After getting yelled at for being too loud in the library (I seem to be running into a habit of being too loud these days :o), we found the ice checkers board abandoned by all the destructive children from earlier in the day and salvaged a few of the larger pieces to play a four on four game of checkers...which sadly had to end in a truce when we both moved around two kings each, both unwilling to give up the game. That and the addition of a sketchy guy offering his advice on our next moves, kind of put a damper on the already late chill.

Pizza and a movie back in Briargate rounded out a beautiful and for the most part, warm Saturday... loved it!