The Wilderness Gang Sculps Mr.Beaver at the Slots!

A week or so ago, our riot of wonderfully creative woodsmen and women got together to create a snow sculpture for the first time ever.  Grand Marais's Art Colony was hosting a county-wide commission to have snow sculptures made.  They assigned our team the Grand Portage site, which is about an hour north of Town and on the reservation. 

I couldn't believe that the casino was putting us all up for free for 4 days just to make a snow sculpture in their front parking lot for the customers.  The Art Colony also paid each team $150 bucks just to do it! So we binged of course, getting all the fixings for some margaritas and making beerfloats (if you want to know, they were created by our dear friend the MadMan Luc P. Guerber, Esq. and essentially instead of rootbeer and icecream, you use beer).  We came up with 'Rocky and Bullwinkle' version 1: Rocky Road ice cream and Moose Drool beer.  But if you ask me, version 2 will probably be better: Moose Tracks ice cream and Fat Squirrel New Glarus.

Anyway, I digress...so they hosted us for free, for which we dearly took advantage of the pool and sauna and television (we live without much technology beyond the internet) and had a great time sculpting.  Here are some photos to narrate perhaps better than I am doing at the moment:

Mr. Beaver In His Top Hat Winning the Slots!