An ice sculpture carved by an ice artist from the Ice Hotel in Sweden. There was also an ice bar and drinks were served in ice glasses. There were free non-slip gloves given with every ice glass. The gloves sure helped because the weather was unbelievably horrid---very strong, cold winds and sleet! In fact the evening was cut short because the weather got so bad. I heard that one of the tents set up for the event ended up being blown over after we had all left!

The moral of the story: We can now create spacecraft to take tourists into space but we can't control the weather---some things are beyond our control, beyond our grasp, and that is as it should be or else there would be no mystery to life!

-- Sent from my Palm Prē