Last Thursday, Tracy, Tom, Bo, Sam and I drove up to Chena Hot Springs for the afternoon. It was really cold (8 degrees) but a beautiful sunny day.
It's a weird time of year as far as tourist activities are concerned because it's definitely not summer and there's not enough snow yet for snow adventures so we basically just toured the Ice Museum and had lunch.
It's a weird time of year as far as tourist activities are concerned because it's definitely not summer and there's not enough snow yet for snow adventures so we basically just toured the Ice Museum and had lunch.
The Museum used to be called an Ice Hotel but the Borough Fire Department shut it down because it didn't have fire alarms and a sprinkler system. Hello. Stupid! If there ever was a fire the whole damn thing would be a sprinkler system and you sure wouldn't have to worry about finding the closest emergency exit; the fire would do that for you.
So now they call it an Ice Museum and thanks to their lawyers finding a loop hole, you can now rent out an "Art Gallery Room" for $600/night instead of a "Hotel Room." But Museum or Hotel, it is still freakin cold in there and not a place I would ever want to spend the night. That's just crazy!
Ice Harvested for Ice Sculptures
Carved Ice Martini Glasses
Inside the Ice Museum
Ice Potty
Cheers! Appletini anyone?
In Front of the "Fire Place"
Bo Feeding Bert or Ernie
Sam Watching From His Cocoon
Warming Up In The Lodge 
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Gary and I never made it out there and now, of course, I wish we had. We are poor sight-seers. We have traveled all over the country but, ashamedly, we missed all the things unique to whatever area we happened to be in.
And now that we are out of Alaska, I keep thinking of all the things we didn't see! Maybe we can get stationed in Europe next so I can start not seeing that part of the world as well:)
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