About a week ago, via youtube, we watched an adept pair of Canadian Eskimos construct an igloo. Their structure, built in about an hour with only a "snow knife," warmed to over 50 degrees inside. Our structure, built over a period of four days with a Tupperware container, a saw, and a shovel, warmed enough to convince Eric that a campout was in order. So on Friday night (with an outdoor temperature of 22 degrees!), Eric and the two older boys proved their manliness by actually sleeping all night long in it. Now I'm certain that neither of the boys has inherited my Texan aversion to all things freezing! I attached the final picture to show that I braved a ski trip with Jacob and Eric the next day, when I mentioned at least five and a half times about how inconvenient it is that such a fun sport has to be in such unpleasant weather. The igloo's still up if anyone's got an itch for a fun campout. And who knows? Maybe I'll buck up and spend a night out there!
