It still feels like T-shirt-and-shorts season outside. But step inside Moody Gardens’ Ice Land: Christmas Around the World , where you’ll be handed a thick winter coat and gloves and suddenly, you’re being transported to winter around the world.

It takes 37 days to build this frozen Christmas playground. What you walk into is a jaw-dropping, globe-hopping ice adventure—full of color, detail, and pure holiday magic.

I stopped by Ice Land on Thursday to check in on the artists as they race to finish everything by next Friday, the 21st, just in time for opening day on November 22nd. It was 83 degrees outside and then I stepped inside… straight into a freezer.

While I was thawing out my fingers, these master carvers were in their element, shaping enormous blocks of ice. Watching the

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