The other day, we noticed what we thought was floating ice in the canal. We didn't have time to investigate, but today we did.
The ice was definitely not thick enough to walk on, yet. But it was pretty slick. We threw rocks and sticks across the ice and they slid pretty far. Quite impressive. It almost made us want to hope for more cold so that we can have thick enough ice to ice skate on. I said almost.
Apparently that is a real thing. Every so many years, when the freeze is deep enough, they have a canal ice skating race. Athletes train for years and years in the hopes that the ice will freeze enough to hold the race. And it has been quite some time since the race has been held. Global warming sucks for the ice racers.
Ryan was very excited to pull the ice out of the canal in pieces. Cameron was so excited that he started to lick the ice sheet. Jaimee had to remind him that we do not lick ice that comes from the nasty dirty canals. Gross!
It was kind of fun taking out the big chunks of ice. So much fun that we had to take several home with us. They are now sitting in our front yard looking like big decorative chunks of ice. They are beautiful.
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