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This grandma floated out to sea on an iceberg while on vacation

Move over, Elsa. We have a new favorite ice queen.

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A grandma may have taken her quest to get the perfect vacation photo a little too far—all the way out to sea, in fact. 

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77-year-old Texas resident Judith Streng decided to try her hand at being queen and posed atop a throne-shaped iceberg during a recent trip to Iceland.

Her son was able to snap a nice picture during their outing to Diamond Beach, Jokulsarlon, but moments later a wave picked up the iceberg and Streng set sail.

“When I got on it, it started to totter and a wave was coming in,” she told ABC News during an interview. “A very large wave came in and kind of made the throne kind of rock, and I could tell that I was slipping off.”

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The dramatic moment from the trip all caught in a text conversation between Streng’s son and her granddaughter, Christine.

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“Lost her kingdom when she drifted out to see! [sic]” Christine’s father sent her in a text.

“No joke. A coast guard rescuer had to save her and bring her back to shore!”

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Christine posted the exchange to Twitter on Monday; by Saturday morning, the tweet had 171,340 likes and 68,945 retweets.

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“I thought it was safe,” Streng told ABC. “One girl had been on it and then two girls at the same time, and it was very secure with them. But I don’t weigh very much. So it was a little easier to float off with me, I guess.”

Thankfully a boat captain, Randy Lacount, was allegedly close by and was able to bring her back to shore before the story turned tragic.

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“You know I always wanted to be queen,” she said. “I mean, come on, that was my chance.”

H/T ABC News

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