A Charlie Brown Christmas at the Gaylord Palms ICE! Exhibit 2016

01/02/2017

It has become a tradition in my family to visit the Gaylord Palms in Orlando, Florida to see the ICE! Exhibit as well as the acrobat and light shows. We love the festive atmosphere as well as the variety of restaurants available at this resort. The 2016 exhibit is over but the atrium view rooms where you can see the shows start to book up several months in advance. This year's theme was "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and was one of my favorite so far and I wanted to share my photos.

Some tips for those of you that like to take photos as I do is to dress very warmly and bring your own gloves. The exhibit area is often crowded and you may need to wait a while to get a good shot. Coats are provided but I wore a winter coat underneath the one that the hotel gave me to use.

Here is one of the artists who comes over from Harbin which is in northern China to make the many ice sculptures for ICE! I think their work is truly an amazing! Not only must they have a lot of talent but working in such cold conditions must be quite difficult.
I am not were to nearly sad when I don't get mail ;)

Besides Charlie Brown I think Snoopy is one of my favorite Peanuts characters:
Here is Charlie Brown sitting above the large slide that kids and adults took turns using. I manage to stay warm enough for about 15 minutes but not long enough to use the slide. It is only 9° Fahrenheit in the exhibit.

Here is one of my favorite ice sculptures in this years exhibit. I like seeing both Snoopy and Charlie Brown happy. They look proud of their popcorn decorated Christmas tree.