hey, hey! or hej, hej! if you're Swedish. so these are pictures of our trip up north to the Icehotel in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden. and that's not how you really spell the town name, but my American computer can't be bothered to have a key with the A and two little dots above it. anyway, we went there and stayed the night on December 30, 2002. it was -27 celsius (-17 farenheit, which in turn translates to 49 degrees below freezing) that night, and that made the -5 inside the hotel seem really warm. convincing myself to get up to
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see, they admit it's nothing more than a huge igloo!
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entrance into the actual hotel
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sky above the hotel, funny thing is, we took this picture at about 2 p.m.,...
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ice sculpture to the right of the hotel entrance
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here i am, standing inside that ice sculpture, pre-hotel outfit...you'll see
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entrance again, at a different angle, we took TONS of pictures
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rear angle of sculpture
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how 'bout the sculpture and the tree!?
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here's a new one, the doors of the hotel!
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have you seen this sculpture before?
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these sleds are great, you push and stand on those blades, it was fun racing...
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hey! ice sculpture!
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antlers and deer skins, the only decoration this place had other than ice.
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if you can't hang with the -5 temperature all night, you can rent...
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this was the glass blowing shack. the open space behind it is the...
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more river and the path that the workers take to work on the hotel. it...
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ahh! here's the hotel outfit i mentioned earlier! pretty snazzy...
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this is basically the view from the front doors, once inside.
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the famous ice chandelier. the only thing about the hotel that is created to...
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even though there is electricity, they resort to candles behind the ice for...
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under the chandelier, an ice table and a couple of ice chairs.
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table again, not such a good picture
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one of the suites, much more elaborate than our room, also 100 dollars more...
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one of the japanese tourists that went dog sledding with us told us that this...
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an ice sculpture on the wall in a suite
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this is a close up of some of the walls. they scooped them out,...
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this room had neat curtain sculptures and stripes in the shape of the...
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the "Absolut Baren". since Absolut is a Swedish company, they...
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this is the doorway, looking inside the bar.
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this is me, trapped inside the bottle.
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now we are inside the bar looking out
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these ice sculptures of absolut bottles were the decor behind the bar.
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more pictures of the entrance, but it was about 4 p.m. here.
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seating and tables inside the Absolut Baren
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Fred taking some close up of an ice pillar???
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this is the actual bar. those dark spots are the alcohol, being kept cold of...
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still in the bar.
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the back wall of the bar. the ice artists are not allowed to color the ice in...
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view from that lit back wall. see how the ceiling is all bumpy? our...
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this is such a good face he's making!
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close up of some bubbles in one of the pillars. to the naked eye they...
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it's Han Solo! wait, no, it's my best attempt at being Han,...
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this is a close up of something, but i'm not sure what.
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here's the turnip fountain. i loved this thing, hence all of the...
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they used an oil of some sort to make the flowing liquid happen, water would...
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top of turnip. oil flowed from here.
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what good would an Icehotel be without a frozen guitar. this suite was neat...
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this is in the robot room too, an ice chair that slid you back into it...
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room 507, that's us!
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our room, and the next few pictures too!
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me, standing in the human cut-out in a suite.
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close ups of the ice-chandelier.
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chandelier from below. tiny lights in every ice cube.
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view from turnip to the front door.
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the next few are the "Icechurch". there was a wedding about to...
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i think these were my turn at taking some pictures. usually not as...
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that's Fred, wearing the same outfit as me. i put him up to...
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eskimo sled parking.
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