We thought we'd go see if there were any ice sculptures or activities during the official winterlude slot with Angie. There were beavertails and maple taffy for sale, a few nice ice sculptures, a lonely busker of dubious interest and free hot apple cider. There were a few signs of things to come but I was really struck by the lack of fun stuff to do and to look at. Sure, we didn't go to the Jacques Cartier site, but this location lost a lot of appeal for me when they did away with the ice slides and kept only tubing - we can go tubing other places if we want to and the ride down is much longer.
By the time we wandered back to city hall, it had changed from a wasteland of Rink of Dreams + Beavertails and nothing else to a bunch of mascots and some activities. So perhaps the afternoon plan for Winterlude was less lame.
Regardless, I think the winterlude organizers need to figure out how to make a compelling winter festival that doesn't rely on the canal to do all the heavy lifting.
Nonetheless, we did enjoy ourselves.
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