Soon, with these temperatures, the lake will be frozen. Every winter there are ice fishermen out on the lake and most winters they even drive their vehicles out there. One year for the Winter Carnival there were car races on the lake. The first night of Winter Carnival they have "Balloon Glow" where a bunch of hot air balloonists start up their fires and blow up the balloons, but don't actually fly, they just sit there and... well... glow. This is done after dark and looks pretty incredible. One of the events of the carnival is some kind of hot air balloon contest where they fly to certain spots and land then take off again. One of the spots used each year is this lake and they take their trucks out onto the lake to refuel the balloons (or whatever they do there...lol). Last winter they had to do this somewhere else as the lake was not frozen solid enough to be safe. It was a really nice, mild winter.
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Beautiful. I'd like to see that winter carnival of yours, I may have to plan a trip sometime ;)
That would be awesome Katie. I'd love to meet you in real life. :o) There are a LOT of events at Winter Carnival, most I've never even made it to, lol. The Balloon Glow is always the "start up" event, there's a big parade, ice carvings done by kids on display outside the library, huge snow carvings up the ski hill done by teams of 3 adults. Those are really incredible. My older brother and 2 of his friends carve there. They usually get the People's Choice Award and after the first 2 years have always won first place. After winning here, the next year they aren't here, but are in Quebec competing for the Canadian Championship. So far they haven't won there so always go back to the one here the next year. This year they are competing here so far as I know. I will make sure I take pictures of their carving and some of the others to post here. There are also a lot of indoor events and I don't know what else happening at Winter Carnival.
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