boreas is the king of the winter carnival and he is the one that wants this wonderful celebration to take place in downtown st paul so a little bit of our history back back back in the day about one hundred twenty seven years ago there were some people from the tribune or not the stars are being excuse me over from the new york times or at a story about us and said that we were the next siberia that it was a place on fit for human habitation and so after we figure that out we decided you know what we don't we don't like that we want st paul to be a place that people want to come in enjoy the weather so we created this winter carnival celebrations of boreas and as for when brothers and princes want to have this winter celebration and sold they tried to beat the balkans but our balkans are arch enemies and they want summer to come years the royal family actually they say makes over three hundred appearances throughout their year as a royal family and so it's really great where the family goes not only to places within minnesota but we actually go abroad and we go to winnipeg canada that's actually where our lovely  mc tonight got his jacket and a side that we also go to macon georgia and florida sometimes they go to texas as well and there's just so many wonderful events to go  foundation of really spreading the word about the same for the water bottle and a lot of people asked about it and they've seen a little bit about it want to know what it's all about you know we always tell them you need to come to old st paul and kind of live the legend so and with i have and i've seen a of people in town today in fact we were walking through where they have been asking a little more about it and you a little more explanation about what all the women legends are about so we keep them burning people as we go that's right and we of course want them on will absolutely and enjoy the winter and you know we love our volcan as king and queen from last year we definitely want to embrace the winter side of this festival and it's just a great group of individuals like get involved with this and really besides the royal family there's so much that goes on within the ten days of winter carnival if you've been down to park at all lately you'll see the lovely ice sculptures that are created they do those every year we have some the best ice sculptures within the area that come out  up you know we had a little bit of both thaw and rain but then it got cold again so a lot of those things are still up in the some of those ice sculptures that are still up in the park here so are there still plenty to see for this weekend absolutely one it's great to because downtown we have  people that come out and watch different events that happen in the rice park area so they have fans that come and play and there's a lot of different activities that happen so you can actually do exercises and really get involved down here and there's the saintly city cats can go and see the wonderful cats over on there around the area and there's hockey games and just all sorts of and so i think it's really a great opportunity for the people within the st paul area to really get involved and enjoy enjoy winter get out here and truly  less fun that's right that's right it's got to just kind of the capstone to all of the events you know it seems like every year the years we've been involved carnival every year there seems to be a little more that's added on to the activities and as the queen was saying the rosary and there's a lot of things  bit for everybody to go out and share but you know rice park is so appropriate and so fitting for the into this parade because it's again it's always so beautifully lit up you know they have the ice sheet over there for skating and it always makes such a magical place to come and visit just on a on any winter's evening is well and they saw the ice skating going down downtown as well so that's really nice where you can skate for free all you need is to write your ice skates and if you facts is the back city had had a nice palace but they had a plague that year in the city so that was just kind of at the same time that they said you fathers got together decided they want to do create some kind of festival here so they kind of shanghai  know those guys take such a big effort to put that whole thing together takes a lot of volunteers a lot of hours and a lot of sponsorship and the money take the right weather to absolutely take her out rather i think maybe we kind of broke the mold this year  well we've had music on the park all pretty much the the duration of the carnival that's been great a lot of great groups local groups to go out and enjoy and sip and walk through and take over the stroll a stroll through we've had some sunny days and that even makes the ice sculpture doing that much better absolutely but what's really great about race part two is they have the lights on at night to sell we're just in a gorgeous atmosphere tonight where you can see the lights all throughout the trees and the are in the background it's really a stark area and great to see you know history living today we have people here celebrating when a carnival and you know i'm sure you've heard us say a few times that this is a hundred and twenty seven year old  festival and really you can see how strong it is after all of these years and it's just it's so wonderful to see it continue on we're just so thrilled to be a part of it and i know boris that you were part of the celebration before you  was fortunate enough to have been the prince of the south when in two thousand and three so this was my teen years and i was on a celebration of the software that is fantastic well so you really do like the warrens a little bit more than the cold city fathers who had the foresight to preserve that they closed it is such a historical building on a used to be a federal courthouse but it makes such a great backdrop for the downtown not only downtown was pushing the winner makes such a great background metropolitan state university one of metropolitan state university's most popular programs as the individualized studies program where students can design their own just interdisciplinary degree to fit their unique person personal and person professional interests that's really influence in the people's lives and the students through the years and we surely appreciate them being partners with the foundation to bring such a great break to us well what do you think of it or the law i think i saw a few a few slides ago back on the t v screen here that is about eight degrees but tony i'm thinking that windshield is a little bit a little bit cooler than i think so maybe it will be so maybe the wind is picking just a little bit yes it looks like is about eight degrees outside we have a window of seventy miles per hour but none of that war yeah minus four is what it feels like sell it on those that actually are long johnson to come out to watch the parade tonight paul so i strongly encourage you to go to winter dash carnival dot com and check out what opportunities there are to volunteer in the future absolutely you know volunteers or make the world go round really it's one of the things we experience in our you're going to all these all these different communities is a volunteer and we made it our point to firstly thank those volunteer for the service that they do to their communities because it makes the quality of life much richer and makes it much better and it ground after all that time missiles being strongly involved with the winter carnival and devoting time and energy to make the celebration possible it's truly a legend that is special and unique to the to the city of st paul and it's great to see it for me but for our family personally you know our room our daughter in law through through the carnival she was part of the carnival royalty family and the guard she was a guard and with three up in the guard my son was also a  so again you're have a lot of people who are inclined and all of the volunteers are absolutely you have quite the unique family there you were in volved and so has your son was involved in this past year and flew and then he is married to a important it is to mash that you sides together and it's not just a celebration of winter but it is about beginning young and summer coming around eventually as well it's got into some of the little yes and they definitely i think will be involved in carnival someday too and it's great to see that traditions stay alive through younger generations and bring it forward i was actually the junior of the snowflakes when i was fifteen and so after that experience i wanted to come back and get involved ice sculptures are just beautiful and you know there's lots of fun things going on but there's a lot of great things for adults to hear that i know there's an ice bar going on and not real warm beverage or a beverage that makes you or might not be too bad of a thing at this point of the day there's a  and i see a corn dog too so you can you can do it all so we're told that the parade is coming up shortly pretty soon here will be able to see some of the units coming towards us very nice name yeah well you know with the winter comes a little bit a cold shall always love their flow and always glitters as it goes by as your local d q network affiliate this is where you can find yourself like vampire diaries errol carrie diaries a c c basketball maury and more now i'm not going to lie i have watch maury once or twice a yeah you know guilty the minnesota state fair to me liberation in the first weekend after labor day  really wonderful having you all here this evening and we're just finishing up the parade  overthrow tonight and the royal family is here that's two so far the guards have survived ok what's happening and obviously i want to take my family what's up to them none of us are going to be up here i want to think the people behind the scenes these people would run black without them the same paul vulcans are going to be around what all the support from these guys without volunteers a step up i want to take your expense will take you to the people from out of town florida coming up here thank you for all the other states thank you thank you and