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Just some photos of my home province... uh I mean Territory.

Today was Inuvik’s 50th Anniversary Celebration!  There was a parade at 1:00 pm, which involved the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, fire trucks, some homemade floats, and enthusiastic, smiling people waving and throwing candy.  We thought it interesting that many people came to the parade and parked so they could enjoy it from their cars- they know how to behave when it’s cold.    And cold it is!  No sooner than I said we were hot, a front blew through, and it h...

Hey everyone! We are in Inuvik, and today is my birthday!! Yah! We went to the family fun centre, which had a realy cool 190 foot slide, a lazy river, these forts that float, a vollyball court, and a water basketball hoop! We had a lot of fun and then we went to The Roost, the local pizza place. I got to go to Borael Books, and got the book, Artemis Fowl:Arctic Incident. The next day, there was a civic holiday, because it was the 50th anniversary for Inuvik. There were lots of festivities, a...

Vandaag hadden we een rustdag in Inuvik. We hebben hier maar eens een internetmogelijkheid gezocht om het thuisfront op de hoogte te brengen van onze ervaringen. Verder was het een echte rustday.

Jeff and I decided to do a road trip through the Canadian North the year after I got back from backpacking around the world. I had run out of money, had one year left on my dissertation and had decided I should try being responsible. Settled into a couple of part time jobs (including one where I was working the graveyard shift phones as a telephone psychic), and taught English to the young fresh-faced university students at York durning the day while I pretended to write. The trip to Inu...

July 19, 2008 Got up late Went to the pool-lots of fun. Our friend Jase was there and we played with him. We also went on the very fast 190 foot waterslide and floated down the lazy river. My mom went down the slide!! We went to Northern images and the woman there was very nice. There were also lots of beautiful things. I thought this was funny. When we read a small town newspaper, they would say things like this: Jean said there were less salmon in the stream this year than last y...

7.17.08   Guess what?  Today we're in Inuvik and it’s my brother’s b-day!   I gave him a card and a book- my sister and I split the cost.  The Northern Arts Festival was so fun!  We bought a polar bear made out soapstone and a bowl made out of wood .We used the bowl to put m&ms in-that tasted good!         Then we went to the family fun center and we went swimming.  The swimming pool had a big slide-you go really fas...