MTU Winter Carnival

It's here. The all nighter at MTU, where the students put their finishing touches on the giant snow statues that will be judged Thursday morning. You can find out more about the MTU Winter Carnival events HERE.

If you've never been to winter carnival, you should take a trip to Houghton and check it out. The things these guys do with snow and ice is absolutely amazing. The statues can be stories high. The detail is sometimes incredible. I particularly like how they make chains out of ice, that particular object amazes me.

the Grinch statue from 2006, my fav that year. This and a couple others are the only pics that survived an external drive crash in which I lost a year's worth of work. That'll teach ya to back up, eh?

A large statue from 2007 Winter Carnival

During winter carnival, broomball is taken very "seriously". It's really fun to watch and there's games going on all the time.
Broomball "save"!

GroundHog Day already??

I dunno. I guess it's just been such a cold brutal winter,it seems too early for Groundhog Day this year. No suprise here that he saw his shadow.

Well, nothing new here. Forecast is snow tonight, snow tommorrow, snow the next day.
Pictured to the left is what we sometimes get to awaken to after we get a good blasting of snow. Go ahead, laugh, if you are reading this from Florida,Hawaii, or some other blissfully warm vacationland right now. What really sucks is when you forget to put the shovel next to the door, and leave it where that second shovel is pictured, leaning up against the fence in the background. Then it's fight thru knee high, sometimes thigh high snowdrifts to get to the darn shovel. Fun times.