Two RV Gypsies and family in the Aurora Ice Hotel in Alaska

Lee and Karen Duquette,
The Two RV Gypsies: Full-Time RVers
at Chena Hot Springs

This is the second visit to the Ice House for the two RV Gypsies. Lee and Karen Duquette returned here to allow their family the chance to enjoy a new but very COLD experience. Be sure you have visited the original photos because more history and more extensive photos and information about the House House are posted there. Each site is a bit different.

AURORA ICE MUSEUM and HOTEL
Chena Hot Springs Resort is home to the world's largest year-round ice museum in the world, the Aurora Ice Museum! It was completed in January 2005 and stays a cool 20 degrees Fahrenheit inside year round. Keeping the museum icy cold in the heat of summer comes from the patented absorption chiller, the first of its kind in the world used for this purpose!

The Aurora Ice Museum gallery features amazing ice sculptures created by 13 time world champion ice carver Steve Brice and with his wife, Heather. They are also 4 time champions as a husband and wife team. Within the museum, they have created a two story observation tower with a circular staircase, but visitors cannot go upstairs.







Below; Ever-changing colored ice crystal chandeliers which mimic the Northern Lights. There were 5 chandeliers each with 70 hand-carved ice crystals that changed colors every 10 seconds. Fiber optic lighting was used to create this feature. All other lighting was LED based which transmits no heat.


*Below: This is the largest ice chess set in the world*. It has an Alaskan theme with eagles, ravens, bears, totems, foxes and caribou as the chess pieces.



3 of the 4 bedrooms - only $600 per night each - NO, the two RV Gypsies and their family did NOT sleep here!


Below: Everybody's heard of people being on the "hot seat" but here everyone can be on the "ice seat"

Below: Nothing like an ice toilet

Menu for The two RV Gypsies and family at Chena Hot Springs in Alaska August 6, 2009 You may visit these four (4) sites in any order you choose. Of course the page you are on is grayed out and cannot be chosen. Remember the navigation arrow below.
Chena Hot Springs	horseback riding
The Ice House (this page)	dog cart ride

AFTER you have visited all four (4) sites above, please continue on to the North Pole - the 2nd visit

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Menu for The two RV Gypsies and family at Chena Hot Springs in Alaska August 6, 2009 You may visit these four (4) sites in any order you choose. Of course the page you are on is grayed out and cannot be chosen. Remember the navigation arrow below.

Chena Hot Springs

horseback riding

The Ice House (this page)

dog cart ride

AFTER you have visited all four (4) sites above, please continue on to the North Pole - the 2nd visit

OR

Continue Navigation in any year, any place, in the order of your choice via the alphabetical or category buttons below

OR Click here to see travels by the year (not the best way)

Menu for The two RV Gypsies and family
at Chena Hot Springs in Alaska
August 6, 2009
You may visit these four (4) sites in any order you choose.
Of course the page you are on is grayed out and cannot be chosen. Remember the navigation arrow below.

Continue Navigation in any year, any place, in the order of your choice
via the alphabetical or category buttons below