already starting to look a lot like a
Christmas over at Gaylord Palms Resort
there are once again preparing for their
annual tradition a tradition that's been
a staple here in Central Florida where
their Christmas at Gaylord Palms
featuring ice and this year's theme is a
favored especially of mine the story
about a nine-year-old boy named Ralphie
who all he wants for Christmas is a BB
gun a new six at nine Karolina Cardona
is there right now to give us a
behind-the-scenes look and Karolina
Howard this place they're going to come
around you look like you're all bundled
up and ready for winter oh my gosh I
came prepared because you know it's 9
degrees in here and this is looking
absolutely beautiful colorful sculptures
all life-size and hand made of course so
right now I am in the middle of if you
remember the scene called the triple dog
they are seen it's where one of
Ralphie's classmates gets bullied into
sticking his tongue out on the pole
right now the pole you see right here
and you see the character right behind
it so this is obviously going to get
positions into place later on right now
they're all in the process of carving
these sculptures that's why there's it's
a little bit of noise it's pretty noisy
actually out here because right now
they're carving all these sculptures and
it's really to recreate that memorable a
lot of memorable scenes up from this
movie that's a Christmas story and this
time it's going to be a Christmas story
on ice inside this big white tent and in
90 gris temperatures artisans are
carving some of the most iconic scenes
from one of America's favorite holiday
movies in twice this year we have a
Christmas story that celebrated classic
holiday film come to life in these
amazing ice sculptures for visitors
who've seen the classic movie they'll
relive memorable moments where young
Ralphie dreams about having the ideal
Christmas as you can see they are
starting to carve Santa Claus at the top
this room will have 5 slides in it the
scene is picking when Santa kicks the
kid down the slide after he asked them
for the BB gun for Christmas both kids
and adults will be able to go down the I
sculptured slides of course - the kick
but with an extra layer of clothes you
have to
have one of our blue parkas on because
they're they're made so you can slide
down a lot easier another scene is
probably one of the funniest that takes
place in the living room behind me is
the staircase where Ralphy comes down
and Aunt Clara's pink bunny suit for
these artisans carving ice sculptures is
a tradition in their home town a place
known worldwide for the largest Winter
Festival these artisans come from Harbin
China so the artistic beauty of this is
incredible in his home town the Ice Show
is very famous and they're famous all
over the world but especially in history
this artisan has been carving colorful
sculptures for about 20 years a skill he
says he wanted to explore ever since he
was a little boy every what area this is
his career this is his dream job he
likes to do this because in his hometown
is very cold air everybody was stealing
it's like something similar things so
that's what he wants to doing when he
grow up he's old friend with Orlando
because he come to America about six
years but he come Alando about twice two
million pounds of ice will be used for
the annual event the artisan started to
carve and build to the displays in late
August a project that takes about 40
days to complete ok so right now you're
looking at one of the artisans that he's
carefully creating one of these
sculptures one of the classmates in this
movie the head right now is on the floor
but of course he's gonna prop it up once
he's done carving out that piece right
there by the neck now this event runs
from November 16th through January the
6th of course it is recommended to come
with closed toe shoes and socks and
gloves I forgot mine actually but you
know it's definitely going to be a fun
event looking forward to it so we'll
definitely be back here for when it's up
and running guys back to you in the
studio