Ok, so not really a snowman, but still in all my years of building forts in the snow, nothing came close to building this dragon. My work sponsors a racecar driver and he decided he wanted to enter the snow sculpture contest in McCall. The sculpture would promote a quit smoking message and promote ProjectFilter.org (my program). The theme for this years contest was fantasy land. So we decided to have a dragon holding a sign that said "my last puff" and have our website on it. So me, John (driver), and 4 of my co-workers headed to McCall on Friday morning to start building this dragon. Oh, I should probably mention that non of us had EVER done anything like this before! We didn't have a clue where to start or how we would possibly pull this off. Luckily for us, Josh has carved an ice sculpture before in Alaska and actually won 3rd place. So he met us in McCall Friday night to help us with the carving on Saturday. But our job was to put a shape to the dragon so that he could start carving details.
I really should have taken a picture of what the "dragon" looked like at the end of the first day. We had people laughing at us as they drove by because I'm sure they couldn't figure out why we were making a sculpture of a cat/dog with stubby legs and a huge tail! I'm not kidding, this thing looked like a mix between a cat and a Boston terrier with the body of a lizard. All Josh could say that night was, we have some work to do tomorrow!
So Josh and I spent some time looking at dragons online (because we forgot our picture at the office). By morning we knew what we needed to do to make the "Cagon" look like a dragon. So we all started carving away. This was the result by 2:00 Saturday afternoon. It still needs some fine tuning, but it was getting too warm to continue to work on it. So John was going to go back in the evening and do some more. He and a couple of c0-workers will be in McCall next weekend before the judging to make sure it still looks like a dragon. I just hope that it doesn't snow a lot or get to warm before they judge. I would hate all the hard work to be for nothing. All in all, it was fun and we learn a lot about what we should do and shouldn't do for next year. Plus we got a lot of tips from the local people. By Saturday afternoon we were getting "thumbs up" from passers-by.
2 comments:
wow that looks good. We thought about going up there next weekend so maybe we can check it out in person.
Way to go Josh! He saved the day again. It does look really good. That would be fun to go see.
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