Second day was a tiny bit warmer I think the low was only zero and the high was 18. We had lunch at another dumpling and bun place on the 4th floor of a mall overlooking Center street. Then once it had warmed up a bit we headed over to the Snow carving festival on Sun Island. This is best done in the day time as the sculptures are made of man made compressed snow and not ice. Therefore they aren't lit from the inside. This is across the river on Sun Island. Some of the sculptures are only 10 feet high and others are the size of a good sized strip mall and 3 or 4 stories tall. In front of the largest snow sculpture is a large frozen pond for activities. This included some ice skaters as well as a bunch of other weird ways to get around; ice bumper cars, ice bicycles, or just sitting on a little seat and shoving yourself around with little ski poles. The also had a track for some little dune buggy like things and several ice and snow slides. Nick skated for a while. We played around with the ice bikes and drove the dune buggies. We went down a bunch of slides. We toured all the hundreds of snow sculptures. Margaret noted that they seemed to have a fascination with bare breasted women, including some that were anatomically pretty improbable.
We went back to our street for dinner as its actually a pretty good location. There is a dumpling shop that makes all its dumplings and then just leaves them out on tables on the side walk. They are flash frozen with in minutes. There is also a beef noodle shop where they stretch the noodles right in front of you. As we were having dinner that night at the beef noodle place under our apartment building we got the word that we were all set for a trip to Yabuli the next day.
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| Outdoor deep freeze for dumpling restaurant |
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| Stretching noodles at beef noodle place |
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