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| Ice Palace |
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| Frozen flowers in ice |
Our plan (we always have a plan...we are so type "A") is to go for a short hike around Chena (with a long "e" like arena), then the a guided tour of the Ice Palace (only because people will ask if we went)...then back to Fairbanks for grocery shopping and getting ready for Denali.
Well to start off with, it's raining...not really great weather for a hike...especially one that essentially goes to the end of the runway and back. So we ditch the walk, and move up the tour of the Ice Palace to 11:00. This is a huge refrigerated room where absolutely everything is made of ice. We all got to wear XXXL parkas to keep warm. There are rooms made totally of ice where you can spend the night for $600 (no plumbing! Just a deer skin and a sleeping bag) There was even an ice xylophone with a full octave (except that the
fa missing) and frozen globes with flowers inside. Part of the tour is sitting at the ice bar drinking an "appletini (vodka and apple juice in a glass made of ice). Vodka at 11:00 in the morning? We'll pass!
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| Making ice glasses |
So we left Chena Hot Springs wondering why. Why a DC-6, why a geothermal power plant, why an ice palace, why a herd of reindeer and a hundred chickens, why 20 broken down bulldozers, why tons of hydroponically grown vegetables, the list just kept growing. Without any answers, we returned to Fairbanks...did our grocery shopping and prepared for the days ahead!
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