The Arctic Post

Today I got back from Calgary. I spent the past 3 days visiting with a cousin. Read more…

So I’m in week 4 of my 9 week visit. In some ways the time is going by way too fast and in others, time is dragging on.  I have been extremely busy since my last post. Isn’t that always the case when you go somewhere to visit family and friends? Read more…

I am visiting friends this week and this is what they have so creatively come up with…….

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Before anyone says anything, I know I’m late in posting this. On the 12th of February, the school organized a Valentine’s Day breakfast for the whole hamlet. We were recruited by the school to help out. The cooking started at 7:00 AM. That meant that I had to get up at 6:00 AM. It was the earliest wake up in a long time! We showed up at the school and mixed pancake batter and cooked bacon until 9:30. It was lots of fun and it seemed to have been a success There were very little leftovers. 14 boxes of Aunt Jemima is a lot of pancakes…

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Well it’s been almost 2 weeks since I left Chester. I am already tired of being in a plane or airport. Friday I actually had to think about where I was when I landed. I still have 5 more flights before we are back home. I have actually thought about adding up the amount of kms I’ve traveled once I’m back at home. I’m scared to see what that grand total will be.

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Well, well, well… Look who decided to show itself properly: good old aurora borealis.

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These are days that I am very glad we will only be doing this amount of traveling a couple times a year! What a few couple of days they have been!

My flight from Chester to Winnipeg was uneventful. We were on time and no problems throughout the flight. The sky was beautiful and the sunset even more so.

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This was my last weekend before I head down south for the next 9 weeks. I couldn’t have asked for a better weekend.

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Congratulation Tara for being our 400th comment. I will bring your gift with me when I visit you in Feb!! I can’t wait…..

I wish I had something interesting and fun to write about……but we haven’t really done anything “outdoors” this past week. If you really want to know what we’ve been doing,

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