January 2 we flew into Salt Lake. That evening we had dinner at Karin’s house and then spent the night at Grandma and Grandpa Dewey’s house. The next day, we drove up to Midway and checked into the Zermatt Resort. After exploring the area a bit — and trying to rent skis, only to be told that they won’t rent them to us because there isn’t enough snow at the resort — we walked across the street to explore the Ice Castle.

Olaf and Elsa were waiting out front to greet us.

It was pretty cool — literally and figuratively! We didn’t have appropriate footwear, so our toes got pretty cold.

This only shows a small part of the inside of the ice castle, it was really big, with lots of different tunnels, pathways, and crevices to explore.

There were also a bunch of slides!

This was the biggest slide and, fortunately, they gave you a mat to slide on so that your backside didn’t get wet.

There were fountains, fire pits, and seating areas inside the castle.

Once our little piggies were frozen solid, we walked back over to the hotel and ate dinner in one of the restaurants there. Then we thawed out in front of the fire in our room and the kids begged to go swimming in the pool.

Lucky for Daddy and me, these kids are old enough to swim without a parent in the water. We could watch from the nice warm pool deck…

…at least until they decided to swim outside. Because swimming in 20* temperatures in the middle of winter isn’t CRAZY!! I convinced them to swim back through the tunnel before I froze to death!