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Ice Magic Festival

Written by Nadine Zangerle on . Posted in Canada

We got pretty lucky to be at Lake Louise for this special event. This weekend happened to be the International Ice Carving Competition so we stayed for 2 nights to watch the Ice Magic Festival.

12 teams (each 2 people) carve against each other for 34 hours, having 15 blocks of ice, to create their themed masterpiece.

On the frozen Lake Louise they had carved a small castle wall and the ice skaters around and in front of the glacier made a fascinating picture.

While watching the teams working on their sculptures we watched a quick demonstration of ice carving techniques and a one hour, one block competition where the ice carvers worked against the clock.

It is just incredible what artists can do with a block of ice.

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Calgary and old cars

Written by Nadine Zangerle on . Posted in Canada

Finally we crossed the border and how comes it is so easy to get into Canada? And the customs are really nice and polite. Let’s see how it will be this time when we go back to the USA. Don’t know, is there a requirement for US customs not to smile or be friendly?

The drive to Calgary was really beautiful. Driving through the Canadian Rocky Mountains was just mind blowing. You will read more about the Rockies in a separate report.

In Calgary we first got some information about sightseeing and highlights of the city. Funny wise the woman from the visitor center was from Germany. Three years ago they had moved to Calgary from Berlin.

She could give us great advices about the northern lights and also a free spot to park overnight at a shopping mall.

So let’s do some sightseeing. Unfortunately only the Gasoline Alley Museum of the Word Heritage Village was open but still, we spent quite some time there. We just like old trucks and cars and to see those old gasoline pumps was just great. Sure we took some pictures.

After a city tour and having a look around the old Fort Museum we went back on the road towards the Rocky Mountains and the Icefield Highway.

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Neujahrsgrüße an die ZangerlesOnTour

Written by Jens P. Klasen on . Posted in Germany

Liebe Nadine, lieber Micha,

wir wünschen Euch einen guten Rutsch in ein hoffentlich weiter spannendes und glückliches Jahr 2013.

Verwirklicht Eure Träume weiter und lasst uns auch dieses Jahr wieder so farbenprächtig daran teilhaben.

Wir vermissen Euch,

Liebe Grüße von den Schlümpfen aus Bonn

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