We made an extra effort tonight to take one last entire family adventure together before Wednesday. We picked Brie up after classes and headed to the Ice Castles in Midway. Luckily, the snow held off and made for a very easy drive through Provo Canyon. It was still quite cold though. The structures were AMAZING! With the added lights within, they looked like something straight out of a Frozen fairy tale.The kids kept trying to find the ways that they were made. They did manage to find a few pipes within the structures, that provided water to run over the existing ice and refreeze again to build on the previous layers.We were pretty impressed that they managed to have a fountain in below freezing temps. The ground inside the Castles was a crushed ice type of substrate. It was definitely NOT snow, as Alex found out, and could not be compacted to make snowballs. It honestly was like frozen sand, just with random larger chunks of ice.There were SO many beautiful places to see, explore, and take pictures!Crazy Lu kept trying to LICK! the ice! I just kept envisioning “A Christmas Story!” The kids wanted to ride in the ice tunnels, but Lucy was not allowed because she was too little. While they waited in line, we found a tunnel just Lu’s size.And she absolutely LOVED being able to do it all by herself!When the big kids finally made it down the tunnels, everyone was pretty frozen. Alex was also still a bit in shock from the wild ride. 🤣 Temps in the teens definitely were cold in the mountains! Plus, Lucy had to go potty. Trying to get her out of her “snowman suit” in a porta-potty was not in my plans. So, we decided it would be best to head back home. (Plus Brie had a full day of classes ahead of her.) This will for sure be on our list to visit again next year though! It was really a great sight to see!