San Jose Ice Rink

I worked in San Jose, California for a week putting together a temporary holiday ice rink. It was interesting work, but as I was so busy I didn't have any time to see any of San Jose or the surrounding area. The Adobe company could be seen from here as well as many other software companies.

Hopefully from the pictures, you can see that it was constructed around palm trees. This and the fact that daytime temps were around 75 F, made it interesting as well as a lake during the afternoons.

It's part of the business districts to attract customers downtown during the holiday season. Along with this there is a Christmas village across the street in Cesar Chavez plaza.

• Posing for a pic just before opening. The corner was the most difficult on the entire job site.

• This is looking at the rink from the front with the safety fences still in place.

• The ice melting during the day in 75 F heat.

• The infamous corner looking great!

• This is what the corner looked like w/o the covering on it. All of this had to be custom built w/o damaging any of those pipes.