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Edmonton's Ice Castle 2018! By Emil Tiedemann For the third year in a row, Edmonton's Hawrelak Park looks as if Elsa from Disney's Frozen is AirBnB'ing there, as the Ice Castle is once again here for the winter!  The stunning ice fortress will stay until the weather permits, so make sure you grab your tickets (we highly recommend you purchase them online HERE ), wear some comfy boots, and charge up your iPhone to snap some sweet #yegwinter pics!  Tickets for the Ice Castle range from $9.95 to $20, depending on your age, the day you visit, and where you buy them. It will be open 4PM-9PM on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday (closed on Tuesdays), 4PM-10PM on Friday, 11Am-10PM on Saturday, and from 12PM-8PM on Sunday.  There is plenty of parking at the Park (first come first serve), and the Park itself closes at 11PM. Here are some pics I snapped of this year's fantabulous Ice Castle!

Jurassic Forest By Emil Tiedemann When I was a kid, dinosaurs were da bomb diggity! All I wanted to do was play with my dinosaur figurines, read my dinosaur books, and watch anything that had a dinosaur in it. I could tell most of them apart with just a quick glance, and tell you about their defense mechanisms, what they ate for supper, or how to properly pronounce their names!  By junior high, I had grown out of my dino phase, and they were no longer the center of my universe, but every now and again I am thrown back to those prehistoric days when a Stegosaurus toy would be the highlight of my being.  These days, I am able to revisit those fond memories by simply taking a quick 45-minute trip northeast of Edmonton to Jurassic Forest , a 40-acre park where life-sized mechanical dinosaurs “come alive”! What more could a kid ask for, really!  There are more than 40 animatronic dinosaurs grazing and hunting this Boreal forest near Gibbons, including Tyrannosaur...