My amazing husband (Ice Sculptures LTD) does several ice festivals every year. One that he has done for the last three years is the Rockford Ice Festival in Rockford, MI. Randy's team sets up ice sculptures all over the town. This festival is pretty amazing. This blog will be mostly pictures and less talking, but I would like to describe Rockford for those who have not visited. Rockford is a lovely west Michigan City. It has this "Sleepy town" kind of feel. Comforting downtown streets, with The Corner Bar (with amazing hot dogs and veggie dogs as well), they just opened a brewery (with delicious beer), and Reds on the River, just to name a few businesses around town. Randy did a live demonstration at Herman's Boy this year where he and Jake (one of Randy's team) made a grill out of ice. Complete with ice carved into meat.
This year Randy and his team added two winners of the National Collegiate Ice Carving Competition to sculpt at the festival. They made their own designs and sculpted blocks of ice at Red's on the River.
The sun was out as well and it shined through the ice beautifully. Every idea for the sculptures came to fruition and was amazing.
This is Randy with local business owner Jeannie, this was an excellent ice sculpture in front of Sage and Roses. The store smelled wonderful and the people were so nice. Typical Rockford. This store ran a contest for guessing how many hearts are in the ice...... it looked like a lot. 
Some of the sculptures were just really cool. Lots of color, some were really detailed and some were just simply beautiful. Some of them were excellent for posing for photos. 
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