Today is the last day of the 2014 tax season. This is exciting for the Colorado Traveling Ducks. Mom is a tax preparer for a major tax preparation company and today is her last day of work. Now we can visit other places. We, the Colorado Traveling Ducks, look forward to telling you about our last day at Frozen Dead Guy Days. We will be traveling around our beautiful state of Colorado soon. We plan to take a longer trip to another country later this year. Now our traveling life is ready to start again. Hope your taxes have been filed.
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Meet Easter Duck
We, the Colorado Traveling Ducks, would like to introduce you to our newest cousin. Easter Duck arrived yesterday in our Easter basket.
Easter Duck is here
Welcome, Easter Duck!
Happy Easter 2015
Happy Easter
Happy Easter! This is a wonderful holiday. The Lord Jesus was crucified on Good Friday, and today he has risen to Heaven. Jesus died for our sins.
Easter Sunrise Service at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado 2013
Easter is a religious holiday for Christians and also a celebration of spring and new beginnings. Today is a day for church, eating, playing and being with friends and family.
Palm Sunday 2015 with the Colorado Traveling Ducks
Today is Palm Sunday. This day commemorates Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem while riding a donkey.
Eastern tradition says a king riding on a donkey comes in peace and a king riding on a horse comes for war. Jesus riding a donkey symbolized his coming in peace.
Today is the beginning of Holy Week.
Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem
Here Franciscan Priests carry palm branches during Palm Sunday celebrations at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem’s Old City on April 13, 2014.
The Colorado Traveling Ducks wish you a good Palm Sunday and a meaningful Holy Week.
Human Foosball and Remote Control Cars with Zeb and Eider in Nederland
Frozen Dead Guy Days festival sure has a lot of different activities. Today Zeb and Eider Duck saw human foosball. This game uses people for foosball. The humans must hold on to the pipe as they try to kick the ball and score a goal. The referee here is ready to toss the ball into the foosball court.
Ready to start the game
You can see the ball on the ground,
Kick that ball
while humans, holding their place on the pipe, try to kick a goal. Zeb the Duck, and Eider Duck, really like watching this game.
We like human foosball
Now we go back to Chipeta Park to watch the remote control trucks race and jump over snow banks. First Zeb and Eider want to race with these trucks.
We are on the trucks!
Wow! We feel like really could drive these. These cars can climb rocks.
Up to the top of the rock
They also race through the mud.
Through the mud
They even race up and down these snow banks.
Here they come
Now the cars and trucks will jump over the snow banks.
In the air
Some of these jumps clear the snow, and other do not. The trucks now try to jump over the snow bank and the boxes on top of the snow.
How high can they go?
Zeb and Eider are fascinated with the jumping.
Can trucks really fly?
They must come down.
Great display of trucks
They do not want to ride on a jumping truck. They prefer regular racing.
This is safer for ducks
You really have to visit Frozen Dead Guy Days in Nederland, Colorado during March 2016. Be sure to keep reading about our adventures. Our next post on Frozen Dead Guy Days is really going to be special.
Wood Carving and Ice Sculpting in Nederland with Zeb and Eider Duck
Zeb the Duck and Eider Duck are back in Chipeta Park during Nederland’s Frozen Dead Guy Days festival. We love these carved wooden masterpieces.
Great wooden carvings
Some of these were transported to the festival and some are being carved here while we watch.
Carvers at work
This is fascinating.
These would be great in our yard
It is a warm sunny day in Nederland and this guy is trying to play an Australian Didjeridoo.
Playing the didjeridoo while ice carvers work
Now the talented carver is working on ice. Look.
Ice sculpting starts with a block of ice and a chain saw
It is a turtle!
An ice turtle
That chain saw is really buzzing now. The only problem today is it is almost 70 degrees. The ice is melting pretty fast. We can see some melting and dripping as he is trying to finish and smooth the edges.
Smoothing edges
Even with the melting, we love these ice carvings.
This is a pretty big ice turtle
It is amazing to us, the Colorado Traveling Ducks, that such detail starts with a block of ice and a chain saw. We hope you can watch people carving wood and ice statues. We really like this!
Turkey Bowling and Frozen T-Shirt Contest with Zeb and Eider Duck
We, the Colorado Traveling Ducks and humans, are still in Nederland, Colorado for the Frozen Dead Guy Days festival. This is a great festival! Now it time for the frozen turkey bowling. Starting with a wrapped, frozen turkey, fresh from the store, humans throw, or slide the turkey down the snowy path, trying to knock down bowling pins. Sounds easy enough, but the humans sure do make a mess with this. This man is ready to bowl.
He is ready
Now, the turkey wrapper has come off the turkey. The warm weather is helping the turkey to thaw. The turkey is thrown and then slides into the bowling pins.
Turkey hit the pins
Good job! Younger humans throw the frozen chicken at the pins. He is ready to throw the chicken toward the pins.
Ready to throw
Chicken hits bowling pins.
Pins down!
This lady is brave.
Turkey in hand
She is ready to handle the unwrapped, partially thawed turkey. There goes the turkey. The weather is warm, but those are bare feet in the snow.
Nice polish
Humans get a little crazy here. We like frozen turkey bowling.
It is time for the frozen t-shirt contests. The men try first. For this contest a new, folded t-shirt is soaked in water and then put in the freezer. The contestants start with t-shirts in a bag and on the ground.
Get your shirt
To open the shirt and put it on, only your own body and the ground may be used.
Harder than it looks
It is really difficult to open, unfold and put on a frozen t-shirt. We are seeing some progress,
Almost!
but still more work to do. The very cold t-shirt is now on.
It is on
Lots of cold fun here!
Let’s see how the women do in their frozen t-shirt contest. Difficult for them to get packages open.
We Will Do This
This woman is getting the shirt on over her dress.
She is getting the t-shirt on
Can she do it? She did it!
Yes. She did it!
She is the winner of the woman’s frozen t-shirt contest. This woman, wearing gloves, gets her frozen t-shirt on also. Another winner.
Love the gloves
This is a great festival. We really hope you can visit the Frozen Dead Guy Days in Nederland, Colorado next March.
Coffin Races in Nederland, Colorado 2015
Zeb and Eider Duck are still in Nederland, Colorado at Frozen Dead Guy Days. Now we are ready for the coffin races. The racing teams pay their entry fee, build the coffin, design their costumes and choose a person to ride in the coffin. The racing route is usually snowy with some ice, but today it is mud and water.
Muddy track
This warm weather has melted the snow, and mud is flying everywhere.
Teams carry the coffins up the first snow pile, run down the hill, race around the track and up the next snow pile. Here comes a coffin racing team now.
Starting the race
This team is the Cereal Killers. Tony the Tiger is in the front.
Now we have the Pink Socks.
The Pink Socks. The defending champions
This team has won 5 times and is the defending champion of coffin races. The Harlem Globetrotters are racing now.
Do they race as well as they play basketball?
They slipped and dropped the coffin.
Running fast!
With these costumes, they are fortunate that it is warm.
Person doing well in coffin, but runners sliding and falling
Get up the second snow hill is difficult, and slippery
Very slippery
Like the green shirts
Help is near–just in case…
The Pink Socks
The Pink Socks seem to be going up the second snow hill with little problem. These guys must train for this event. They won again. The Pink Socks are now six time coffin racing champions. Great race Pink Socks! Congratulations! The Cereal Killers won second place. Congratulations to Tony the Tiger and the team.
If you wondering where Zeb and Eider are during this race, they are right in the front. The mud was flying and here we are after the race, sitting on mom’s mud splattered jacket. Her jeans, hat and sunglasses also were covered in mud. Our humans are muddy messes, but they are smiling.
Mud splattered!
Guess all the mud and dirt means we had a great time. I hope you go to the coffin races in Nederland, Colorado next March and enjoy Frozen Dead Guy Days.
Polar Plunge in Nederland, Colorado 2015
Zeb and Eider Duck are in Nederland, Colorado for Frozen Dead Guy Days. Yesterday we showed you the parade. After the parade, we went to Chipeta Park
Welcome to Chipeta Park. The Polar Plunge takes place in the pond behind the park
for the Polar Plunge. That reservoir is frozen. The human plungers wear costumes for this event. Here is a grandpa look alike ready to take the plunge.
In costume for Frozen Dead Guy Days
These humans are also waiting for their turn to jump into the icy water.
These humans will take the polar plunge.
A large rectangle has been cut through the pond and the ice removed. The humans will jump into this icy water. The fire department water rescue men are in the water to help if there is a problem.
One jumper with the rescue team
You can see that being ready to rescue humans can be a very wet job.
Big splash
These two humans are dressed as bacon and eggs.
Bacon and eggs costume
They are scrambling as they jump into the icy water. Behind the water, you can see the warming tent for the human participants. This is a great way to enter the cold water.
Great presentation
This really looks cold.
Brrr
But these two scientists checked and didn’t think the water was cold enough.
Scientists or crazy?
They are adding more ice to the pond. And now they are in the water.
They are in the icy water
This is like swimming, but bikinis in icy water?
Bikini bottoms
We ducks did not go into this cold water. We like warmer water. Keep reading our blog to see more of the fun at Frozen Dead Guy Days in Nederland, Colorado.
The Iditarod from Fairbanks Alaska
Eider Duck, our Alaska cousin, brought us some photos from the starting point of the Iditarod in Fairbanks. The Iditarod is a dog sled race in Alaska. Some call the Iditarod the “last great race.” The race usually begins in Anchorage, Alaska and ends in Nome, Alaska. This year, however, there was not enough snow in Anchorage for the beginning of the race. The race was Re Started Monday, March 9, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. in Fairbanks, Alaska. The awards banquet is scheduled for Sunday, March 22 at 4:00 p.m. in Nome, Alaska.
These are some of the photos Eider shared with us. These photos were taken from a distance, so we are not sure whom the mushers are, but we love these. Thanks Eider!
Sled with well wishers
Getting ready
Dog team and sled
Dogs ready
Let’s go
Are we going soon?
Wanting to run
Run now
Great photos Eider. Thanks!
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