Colder than Ice Cream

According to Wikipedia: the temperature of ice cream is -5 degrees celsius, but it depends on the fat and all that stuff.

Over the past 6 weeks we worked in Winnipeg, Manitoba, otherwise known at this time of year as Winterpeg. Winnipeg carry's a lot of history with it. A city of approximately 700,000 people, it embraces the new with the old. From historic old bank buildings to sleek glass modern skyscrapers, it truly is a city to explore. The city core is broken into districts, two being the exchange district, and the forks district. The forks district is situated where the Red River and the Assiniboin river meet. Comprised of historic buildings the area has been converted into a "meeting place". Parkland had been developed and some of the old boding converted to a year around market, selling everything and anything to do with Winnipeg, native and local crafts. A great place to shop, when its not too cold.
Winnipeg is the capital of Manitoba, and one of its mascots is the polar bear (wonder why?) Near the parliament buildings there is a small park which is dedicated to....Polar Bears. These are fiberglass structures depicting the polar bear is different shapes and sizes. Not just white, the polar bears are artfully decorated and combine together in the park make and extraordinary collage.
The main street in Winnipeg is Portage. Driving along the downtown core of Portage one can't help but notice the fiberglass sculptures, not only of polar bears, but of dogs, women frolicking. Portage links with Main Street, heading east. It is at this corner where they say the coldest winter temperature in Canada is (colder than ice cream). In the winter one would have to be either brave or a fool to stand on this corner for a photo op. I decided not to.
When we arrived in Winnipeg, we were greated with snow, and cold temperature (colder than ice cream). Our six week stay saw the temperature plummet from a balmy -15C to bottom out at -35C (really colder than ice cream) and I'm not factoring in the wind chill factor.
We surrived our first stay in Winnipeg, but before we returned home, we had the experience of visiting another Manitoba city, Brandon. Brandon is just a pocket city compared to Winnipeg, having a population of just over 60,000 people. We were there for one week, and it is here where I really experienced the cold. Two days before we were to leave the temperature was
-35C with a wind chill factor of -47C (wayyyy colder than ice cream). The car refused to start without a jump boost, the squeek of the snow when you walked sounded like two pieces of styrafoam rubbing together. We survived, returned to Edmonton, and now, having been home for 11/2 weeks, will be heading back to Winnipeg again.
I'll guess our average temperature while in Winnipeg was -22C, which is colder than ice cream