Life-sized gingerbread hogan unveiled in Flagstaff

All right, happening now, Twin Arrows Navajo Casino Resort is unveiling something very cool. Yes, it's a life-size gingerbread hogan, and Isabella Fredrickson, she's in Flagstaff. Of course, you've seen her all over our streaming platforms. She's amazing, very talented. She's there right now to give us a look at it. Isabella, good morning. Good morning, Celeste. Let me tell you, it smells so good in here, but what's even more impressive is this giant life-size gingerbread hogan right behind me. As you mentioned, we're at the Twin Navajo Casino Resort, Twin Arrows, excuse me. This is impressive. It's over 10 feet tall, 18 feet in diameter. I am here with Mr. John, I'm so sorry, Mr. John James. He is the CEO of of Navajo gaming, and he's going to take us at A look inside, if you want to come this way. A little bit about what we're seeing. This is so impressive. I wish you guys could smell how good it smells in here. I know they've used over 10,000 pounds of butter for this, a lot of safflower. Tell me about... You know, the idea was it started back in January, and we put together a thought and said, let's build the world's largest Navajo Nation in Hogan. So the team put a lot of effort and hard work in here, and here it is today. We're very proud. It smells wonderful in here. It's beautifully appointed and decorated. Things that you see in here are all tribally appointed. We have pictures in here of all our casino resorts and all the surrounding areas of Navajo Nation, so we're proud. Great. And so, you know, this kind of looks like a gingerbread house, but we're calling it a Gingerbread Hogan. Can you tell us a little bit about the difference between the two? What makes this... significant and culturally important to the Navajo? Well, first, it's a replica of what a hogan is. If you look in the Navajo Nation Reservation, actually people live in these type of structures. So we thought, let's make it a gingerbread house, build a structure that's identical in shape, size, and symmetry. And here it is today, created. Amazing. And as you mentioned, we're vying for the Guinness Book of World Records. Tell me about what we're doing with that. We're in process right now. We've double checked. We did our homework. There's nothing larger than this in the United States. It's of this size and magnitude. And the team and I are very proud of it. The nation is proud of it. And here it is before your very eyes. What do you think? I think it looks incredible. I'm so excited for the unveiling. We're going to be doing that here in just a few minutes, right at 10 a.m. So be sure to stay tuned. I think it's exciting. This is going to be cool. How can people come and see this? They can come 24 hours a day. The doors are always open, and we're hoping our expectation is we're going to enamor them. They're going to be delighted. The children that come are going to see it and go, wow, this is amazing. All right, they're unveiling this at 10 a.m. Thank you so much. Isabella, it must smell amazing in there. Like those crackers. Oh, yeah. Oh, my goodness. That's beautiful. How cool. Gingerbread, sugar, butter. Gingerbread and sugar, butter. Isabella, great job out there. Wow. What a cool idea, right? That is cool. And really a piece of kind of Arizona with the hogan, you know, because it's very specific to, you know, the Navajo Yeah. I love it.