Spring Snow, Winter Rain
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Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Friday, April 15, 2011
I couldn’t believe that it was a hotel, not to mention an ice one. There was an ice slide that froze my butt, ice bar with champagne in ice glasses plus iced sofas, and thousands of suite rooms all customized differently. In the Poseidon Suite, sculpted fish glistened in a frozen sea; in the Igloo Suite, the walls were carved out into little bricks like the room was made out of little ice bricks; in the Frog Suite, frogs were carved out in ice on the walls and the room sparkled a vivid green. The bed was even shaped like a lily pad. People actually stay overnight here? It like -3° to -5°C indoors! It was amazing how the ice hotel wouldn’t melt, even for five months. This hotel was definitely one of those one of a kind experiences that you had to have in your lifetime.
The Quebec fun didn’t end there. Fortunately, that night in Quebec City, the International Red Bull Crashed Ice race was going on in “Old Quebec City”. And it was only a fifteen minute walk from our hotel. Brave skaters skated the long, elevated skating track that snaked its way throughout the whole of “Old Quebec City”. Competitors were skating like madmen. They were jumping 6m drops and mind blowing slopes. I was amazed by how only one competitor fell after jumping one of those drops. Watching this spectacle was another one of those truly rare experiences.
