Now that's COLD

I'll do about anything to avoid wrapping Christmas presents. Building this huge ice/snow castle in the backyard this morning, however, is NOT something I'd do to avoid the ritual. Yes, those are humans in the bottom right. The Great Wall builders are at it again:

The Harbin Ice Festival was officially proclaimed in 1985 following the Cultural Revolution in China, which runs through to the New Year holiday. It now attracts hundreds of thousands of locals and visitors world-wide who brave the sub-zero temperatures.
It’s held each year on the Sun Island in Harbin, northeast China, about 400 miles east of the Russian border. The frigid city’s arctic climate provides an abundant amount of ice and snow with average winter temperatures of minus 16.8 degrees.