So-- first thing: The ice park people were thinking about placing our saguaro into the Ice Museum! That's a refrigerated building downtown that's open all summer, and where the tourists can go to get their ice-art fix. Very cool, though it would entail chopping the saguaro up, and rebuilding it in the museum. However, due to severe melting (see next paragraph), this may no longer be an option, though there's still a chance we may rebuild one there.
The ice park's final day was yesterday, and most of the sculptures lasted up until the very end. Well, the last day, anyway. Warm temperatures these last couple days, combined with breezes have chewed up some of the sculptures somethin' fierce. A few had fallen over, while others were highly eroded nubs of their former selves. One, a single block "Cell R' Ice" was standing when we first walked by (before the lights were turned on for the night), and had fallen by the time we made it back around later that evening. Several statues were making faint cracking sounds.
I'll put up a few before/after shots when I get the chance.
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