Snow Town

We're lucky if it gets in the 60's here in Bangkok, so there's not really any "winter" to speak of.  We have some friends who have never lived in a real winter climate, and so they invited us and some other friends to go with them to Snow Town.  In typical Bangkok fashion, Snow Town is in a mall, the Ekami mall in this case.  They get it cold enough and spew some snow on the ground.  They even have a slope and you can rent sleds for the full "winter" experience.  Vivian was in heaven.

I had fun too.

The trickiest part of the day was figuring out a winter wardrobe.  Vivian insisted on wearing her Hello Kitty rain boots.

We didn't bring Elena, because it would have bumped into nap time, and plus, I didn't think she would react well to the cold and the snow.  This is a kid who is still coming to terms with sand and waves.  She had a lot of fun messing with the hats and gloves that came out of the winter storage box, but she didn't want me to take her picture in them.

Before we got to the main Snow Town area, we were greeted by a polar bear in a Santa costume with a sign in book, no explanations given.

The polar bear got out from behind the desk to pose for pictures though, so it was all good.

Then we got to the main event.

The sledding was definitely Vivian's favorite part.  It wasn't a big hill, but it wasn't super cold in Snow Town, so the top layer was a bit melted and very slick.  It was hard to get on the sled at the top without unintentionally sliding down.  There was an employee at the top to help the kids with that, and one at the bottom to try and help avoid crashes.  Vivian took full advantage of their help.

She also liked the big inflated igloo and the regular solid igloo.

After about an hour of playing, Vivian declared that she NEEDED a hot chocolate, because she was so cold.  I figured if she got some, her friends would want some too, so they had a hot chocolate break in their igloo.

The snow/ice mostly came out of a big tube.

But there was one time when it came out of the wall in pretty flakes.

Two of our friends got really ambitious and decided to make a snow person.  There really wasn't enough snow to make a full sized one, so they made what I would call a snow midget.

We stayed a little while longer until Vivian started complaining about being cold.  This wasn't surprising since she was soaked through from rolling around in the snow, and it was quite chilly in Snow Town.  We changed the children into dry clothes and then went back out into the Bangkok heat.  Vivian asked if we could go again tomorrow, so I think she had fun ;-)