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Reflection #3

This is the official carving and making the ice sculpture week.

On Monday we got frozen ice out from the 5 containers and froze 5 more containers of water. The containers of water fully froze around Wednesday morning. All the planning was done during the weekend, so we were ready to start carving the sculpture. You know how all the ice sculptures on internet are super shiny and clear? Well, ours wasn’t. The ice probably froze and then when it snowed, the snow got on top and froze there. Not as pretty as the ice on internet sculptures, but good enough for us.

We started the basic structure of the sculpture on Monday. It’s good that we started early because piecing the ice together and making shapes was hard. Especially when the weather was really cold and our hands were freezing, really…being outside wasn’t the greatest thing. Definitely some frustration and problems during the building process and it would have nice if Gen was here to help (she’s gone to China), but overall it went fine.

on Tuesday it was found out that a group had decided to be retards and put pinecones and sticks in our containers full of water before they froze. thank you, people. have some applause. but, it wasn't too big of a problem and we shoveled off the parts sticking out enough to be a bother, and we will do the same of we find the geniuses who decided to do that.

Wednesday we completed the second standing layer, and smushed the ice together with ice. Done! except we need to stick on ome details and figure out how the lights are going to stick on...

we'll finish in time! yay!