Christmas in Ice.

• Author: Anderson, Tasha
• Position: TRAVEL

It will be a shock to absolutely no one that there's ice in North Pole. What's awesome about the ice in North Pole is the way it's being used from November 29, 2014 through January 6, 2015, to make the Christmas season a little more active and a lot more fun.

"Our goal is to provide outdoor activities and family entertainment when the winter's cold normally keeps us indoors," says Marilyn Fye, publications and marketing director for Christmas in Ice, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Now in its eighth year, Christmas in Ice takes place annually next to Santa Claus House and features the Elf's Icy Playground with a couple of one hundred-plus-foot tandem slides to race down, twirlers, kiddie slides, and a full-size maze.

"We even provide sleds for everyone to use on the slide in keeping with the Christmas spirit," Fye says.

Christmas in Ice attracted more than sixteen thousand attendees last year over the six weeks of the event. There's a guest book available for anyone to sign; in last years' book, forty-three...