Glacier?

What is your first impression of the picture above (look at it in full size)...yeah, I thought it looked like a glacier. Unfortunately, this is not the case. This is what happens to your Spa when you go out of town for a week and the cover blows open during a major snow storm.





The ice was 5 to 7 inches thick depending on the area. After spending an hour and a half pouring boiling water over the ice, I finally broke it down enough that it would crack if jumped on it :) The picture below was taken a few minutes before I started jumping on the "glaciers". I removed them from the hot tub in 3 ft long chunks, which felt as if they weighed a couple hundred pounds...although, I could just be out of shape :( Once I removed all of the ice, the water level was down to 50%!!! Half of the spa was frozen??? The question I got a lot today was, "did you have the heater running?". The answer is yes, it appears that when the outside temperature is in the low teens even 103 degree water will freeze. I imagine that the snow falling into the spa also helped out. The thermometer in the water read 32 degrees...



I'm sure that Kacy will report on our wonderful Christmas vacation on the family blog.