I took the girls to Nashville, TN to see the Madagascar ICE! show.
If you’ve never heard of the ICE! shows before, the basics are this:
Tons and tons of ice are carved by artists from Harbin, China to create multiple scenes that depict a popular movie or cartoon.
This year’s theme was Merry Madagascar.
Each person, including kids, receives a parka to endure the truly freezing indoor temperatures.
And when you have mini-kids like I do? The kiddie parkas drag on the floor and have sleeves twice as long as their arms.
Just a few of the photos from the show.
Everything you see – even the bookshelf and fireplace – were carved from ice.
The highlight of the visit were the ice slides. Yes, the artists even carve extremely slippery slides made completely from ice for your sliding – and frozen butt – pleasure. Both Kate and Maddie wiped out on their descents, though only Kate ended up with a bruised hip and swollen and scraped cheek.
It’s rough having fun.
This post is part of #iPPP (iPhone Photo Phun), where we link up photos taken from our smart phones. Any smart phone.
FUN! We are going to see Disney on Ice this Sunday!!
Oh fun!! And the sculptures are amazing!
Thank you for linking up with us!
Love that you have mini’s … but their Mama is just a petite little thing too. My niece is 4 and a half, weighs 28lbs and is teeeeny – but almighty powerful!
I look forward to seeing you SOON!
Isn’t ICE amazing? A few years ago, they had a Charlie Brown Christmas & the next year was the Grinch. Both looked AMAZING.
Glad y’all had fun!
Wow! This is really amazing!
Wow this is unreal! I’ve never heard of it but it looks so very cool!
That is so cool!! Nothing that exciting around here that’s for sure!
Oh wow! I can’t believe everything is made out of ice.
Yikes, poor Maddie! It looks like fun but I think next year will probably be better for us. It all looks amazing!
How cool, I am DYING for Toy Story on Ice to visit here.
I’m not sure if that looks like fun or not! It was fun, yes? I’m not much of an extreme weather person, cold or hot. But if it’s popular, it must be enjoyable. Right? It LOOKS cool (no pun intended)!
Sweet baby Jeebus that sounds like fun.
That really looks like a blast. Was the wipe-out enough to make the little one want to go home, or just a blip on the fun day?
Wow the sculptures are amazing!!!
How fun! (despite the injuries) It looks like you had a wonderful time!!
That show looks so fun. You do some of the neatest things with your kiddos. Will you adopt me?
Love this! My friend is a competitive ice carver, but this looks even more amazing
Poor Kate; I hope she’s feeling better from her ice accident!
Wait, what? Those are made of ICE?
I was so hoping they’d do a Forrest Gump on Ice out here (can you imagine all those important dates in history frozen? Plus Forrest skating around? With chocolate?)
But the best we can get is a Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurant. With a creepy shrimp in costume.
(This *may* have to be in my next #iPPP submission.)
So hopefully Madagascar will come to us.
(Fingers crossed!)
I’ve never heard of this before. Both of my kids have seen Disney on Ice though and both enjoyed it. It’s amazing how much fun kids can have in the freezing cold.
Oh man, that looks awesome!! And as a bonus, I really love Madagascar. I like in Madagascar two when the one hippo is like “you CHUNKY!” Also? Mini-kids rock
How fun! A friend of mine moved to Alaska and they have ice playgrounds up there. I guess you’ve gotta work with whatcha got!
Very cool!! Since all of my pictures are now taken with my iPhone, I just linked up my WW!
Can’t believe that’s made of ice. Poor Kate though. Hope she’s alright!
That’s amazing!!
That looks so cool – I’ve never heard of those shows. I bet my girls would love them though. My middle girl would be one who would wipe out and get hurt though
Hope yours fully recovered from the fun!
What a fun day! Though I’m sorry your little one sustained a slight cheek bruise, doesn’t seem to have bothered her too much!
Awww poor thing with her bruise! You’re right, having fun can be dangerous stuff.
Those sculptures are amazing!
Ice slides! Oh my, FUN!
Looks like such a fun time had by all!
I’m pretty much opposed to anything “on ice” BUT Madagascar I would totally do!
I love that hotel Liz! I went for a few years for a MOPS convention. Never got to be there for any fun events though.
I remember when I was dating my husband and we went to see his younger brother playing high school ice hockey. The area was not heated — the ground was frozen naturally. (in Minnesota.) I can understand that parka thing. Looks like a “cool”thing to do with your children.
Oh we so would do that with you! Ice slide, Danger, Characters. It’s all our bag.
Awesome activity!
Looks like fun!
That looks incredibly cool and fun! Too bad about the scraped cheek, but I bet she had fun anyway!
Those sculptures look pretty cool (ha ha) I was not expecting them to be in color!
This looks like SO MUCH FUN!!
Jealous!
Aw, poor thing. Who knew an ice show could be so dangerous for the spectators
Super fun. I’m sure they loved it and would take a spill all over again for it. Have a great weekend.
Those sculptures were awesome! Some people are so talented. Poor thing with her bruise. If anything like that is going to happen it usually happens to my daughter too… we’re good for at least 1 war wound per outing.
That looks cool! Ha, pun intended. We’ll have to check one out sometime.