Stay inside, drink lots of soup and try everything to stay warm, right! But Daniel Gray, who was visiting Canada for the first time, ended up spending his Canadian holiday in a rather unique way - building an igloo.
Daniel Gray, an engineering student from New Zealand was visiting his girlfriend, Kathleen Starrie's family for the holidays in Edmonton, Canada. Kathleen's mother, Brigid Burton in an attempt to keep Daniel busy, suggested him to build an igloo.
Brigid started the preparations even before the couple started packing their bags for the vacation. She started filling milk cartons with colored water and placed them outside to form ice bricks.
According to Kathleen, "You need to collect hundreds of cartons, hundreds and hundreds of cartons."
Daniel with some help from Kathleen's family and neighbors spent about 150 hours and used 500 ice bricks to build the rainbow-colored igloo and as for mortar, Daniel used 'snowcrete', a mixture of snow and water to bond the bricks together.
The temperature was around the -25 degree, when Daniel was building the igloo. According to him, "We kind of prepared well and went to the store and got some toe warmers and hand warmers and all of that and just dressed warmly. We'd only work for about two hours maximum at a time, and then go inside and warm up."
Daniel really enjoyed building the igloo. "Once I started building it, it was something I just really wanted to finish, because you can't just leave something like that unfinished. There was a few calculations involved, mostly regarding an estimation of how many blocks we would require, just based on it being a spherical shape," he explained.
Soon after Daniel finished building the rainbow-colored igloo it became a local attraction and it was even featured on a local news channel.Here's an easy tutorial on how to build a rainbow-colored igloo.
Well, one thing for sure building this rainbow-colored igloo was one crazy task for Daniel and it really did keep him occupied!
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Wow! Never saw a rainbow igloo. Have to ask, did you color the water or was it some kind of an anomoly?
That is what we thought too, Wow! Coloured water was used to fill the milk cartons and thus the rainbow hues.
This is the coolest winter project I have ever seen. I am not a huge fan of snow or winter but seeing this I might just pray for snow tonight. It was really a neat idea that the mother had and even going to the trouble of preparation is just something that a really great mother would do. Thank you for the inspiration.