Ice, Bryce, and Spice

After I posted the last entry Bryce decided to spice up the weekend with a little creativity. While I was filing he was formulating a plan. Friday night deserves a special date-night activity. Something a little more exciting than a movie at home.

Our adventure started with a trip to the MOA. (for those who don't understand the acronyms of BYU [Brigham Young University] the MOA is the BYU Museum of Art) The current exhibit displayed is an exhibit of... garbage... literally. There were black garbage bags fused together and attached to a fan (so they ballooned out). There was also a panel of little honey packets attached in rows to a wall (see picture to the right), a wad of balloons blown up and tied together, a room where they had hooked up a row of flickering lights, and my favorite... a corner of packing peanuts with a fan blowing them around. Who knew you could get rich and famous off my garbage?! (well ok, maybe not so famous... but really?) Seriously... I should have thought of it. Someone beat me to it... It was kinda cool though...


The original plan was to go from the museum to the dollar store where we would find an item that best described the other and take it home to cave said object out of a block of ice. As it turned out, the dollar store was closed (all part of the adventure) so we ended up at Smith's. Instead of buying the objects we took pictures of random items we found that had significance or described the other person. It was pretty funny when we got back together and found that we had both taken a picture of an Ibuprofen bottle... :) That is, consequently the item he chose for me to carve. I made him carve a giant kiss.


The ice carving turned out to be a cold experience (one could imagine). We split an ice block in half and brought out the screwdrivers. By the time our ice had shape the kitchen was soaked with ice puddles... (it was cleaning check the next morning, we figured it wouldn't be too bad if we helped start it...) but the sculptures turned out better than the previous expectations. Well... Bryce's did... mine fit expectation almost exactly... :)Bryce was rather pleased with himself and rightfully proud of his creation. We set them outside and commenced the clean up. All-in-all a very exciting adventure!