Post by Ember on Jun 1, 2012 10:28:16 GMT -5
Snowland
Fairly well separated from everything else at the Winterlude Gather, this noisy attraction draws mainly one crowd - children! While adults certainly are welcome it's the kids that rule this area. In fact, it's perfectly safe to leave your children here for the whole day and know nothing ill will befall them. They are well guarded by an obscene number of creche women and their unwilling husbands and even a couple dragons lurk around (the latter being used largely as human jungle gyms, go figure).
Within this area are several points of interest - the first and foremost being the playground made entirely out of snow and ice. Carefully packed and ice-slicked snow slides of varying heights exist, as well as snow tunnels, child-sized castles, and snowball fight forts (though these last ones appeared only after the Gather started due to the kids themselves). As one might expect there are a bunch of games constantly going on within the area such as freeze tag, snowball fights, snow kick-ball, and even Lords and Robbers.
Another major draw is a multi-tiered hill roughly in the middle of the child kingdom with tons of wooden sleighs strewn at each level for tobogganing. There are three tiers and it is clear that the lowest one is mostly families and younger children while the upper most one is for adults and older children, with the second level for those in between. At various outposts around this hill - and far enough away from the bottom to avoid tobogganers - are craft stations which include cutting white-dyed writing-skin snowflakes, ice sculpting, and snow-painting (putting dyes on snow to make a picture).
Also in this area are long wooden sleighs pulled by a two dog team. Kids can be seated on the sleigh while a professional sleigh runner guides the dogs around a simple but fairly long track. It is the only thing within Snowland that is not free but nor is it particularly expensive - so kids, get a-begging because the ride is well worth it, especially because you get to cuddle with the dogs after!
Fairly well separated from everything else at the Winterlude Gather, this noisy attraction draws mainly one crowd - children! While adults certainly are welcome it's the kids that rule this area. In fact, it's perfectly safe to leave your children here for the whole day and know nothing ill will befall them. They are well guarded by an obscene number of creche women and their unwilling husbands and even a couple dragons lurk around (the latter being used largely as human jungle gyms, go figure).
Within this area are several points of interest - the first and foremost being the playground made entirely out of snow and ice. Carefully packed and ice-slicked snow slides of varying heights exist, as well as snow tunnels, child-sized castles, and snowball fight forts (though these last ones appeared only after the Gather started due to the kids themselves). As one might expect there are a bunch of games constantly going on within the area such as freeze tag, snowball fights, snow kick-ball, and even Lords and Robbers.
Another major draw is a multi-tiered hill roughly in the middle of the child kingdom with tons of wooden sleighs strewn at each level for tobogganing. There are three tiers and it is clear that the lowest one is mostly families and younger children while the upper most one is for adults and older children, with the second level for those in between. At various outposts around this hill - and far enough away from the bottom to avoid tobogganers - are craft stations which include cutting white-dyed writing-skin snowflakes, ice sculpting, and snow-painting (putting dyes on snow to make a picture).
Also in this area are long wooden sleighs pulled by a two dog team. Kids can be seated on the sleigh while a professional sleigh runner guides the dogs around a simple but fairly long track. It is the only thing within Snowland that is not free but nor is it particularly expensive - so kids, get a-begging because the ride is well worth it, especially because you get to cuddle with the dogs after!