When Brigid Burton discovered her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend would be spending five weeks at her Canadian home, she knew she needed to keep the New Zealand-residing couple busy. She managed to cover a good portion of the 35 days with milk cartons and subzero temperatures (both readily available in Edmonton). For pictures, check here.

"I wanted to keep him occupied, not with my daughter necessarily. I wanted to keep him busy with something else," Burton told Global News with some gest. "I didn't want Daniel to just be twiddling his thumbs while he's here in Canada so I thought, this needs to be something that's got some meat to it."

Burton, her husband, the young couple, and a neighbor used blocks of milk-carton shaped ice and food coloring to build an igloo in Burton's yard, according to globalnews.ca. Lighted at night, the two-person ice structure is a startling display of amateur architecture.

What really separates their igloo is the dye. Every block of ice is stained in a different color and an abstract pattern. The combination partially resembles the stained glass of church windows.

"It was a lot of work so, it's nice to actually have it there," said Daniel Gray, boyfriend of Burton's daughter, Katie Starrie, "It's been joked about that I have to sleep in it but, I don't think it'll be happening."

Igloo construction was a daily, two hour activity for the group, according to globalnews.ca. Any longer and the minus 25 degree temperatures could have been dangerous.

"We kind of prepared well and went to the store and got some toe warmers and hand warmers and all of that and just dressed warmly. We'd only work for about two hours maximum at a time, and then go inside and warm up," said Gray.

The project began tediously and required some ingenuity on the group's part. Gray, for instance, discovered snow and water worked best to hold the 500 or so bricks the team ended up using.

"I thought we'd just take the bricks of ice and just kind of, almost throw them out there and make an igloo," Burton said with a laugh. "It was) a lot more difficult, truly."

Burton and Gray agreed the New Zealander earned the right to ask for Starrie's hand in marriage, though Gray said the four-year old couple isn't quite ready for that yet.

"It's a ways down the track at this point. We're still young, I feel," said Gray.

"We're pretty happy to wait for a while," added Starrie.

No world yet on why the two spent so many weeks in Canada.