In what I have come to see as true Northern form, the nurses and RCMP got together again today, this time to help one of the nurses move. After packing last night, we were hoping it wouldn’t be too hard to throw the boxes and furniture into a pickup and drive it a block, but we were wrong! After hours of hauling things down stairs, into freezing weather, and back upstairs in the new house, we finally had most of it dumped in the living room. After putting together the baby’s bed (and of course singing some favourite songs with him) we left to let everyone have a nap. We were invited to one of the RCMP members’ house for supper. I was enticed because of one particular offering: caribou shepherd’s pie. As most of you know, I decided to eat fish before I came up here to broaden my nutritional options, but I also told myself that I would try to sample foods from here just for the sake of being able to say I ate them. Caribou is definitely one of them! The shepherd’s pie was delicious, and I’m not sick yet, so all in all a pretty good day off! Tomorrow we are on call again and have one baby going out on a schedevac (scheduled today to go out tomorrow on the airline to the ER in Yellowknife) but hoping for no excitement.
see you soon,
kirsten in kugluktuk
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it sounds like you are having a really interesting time up there! keep warm and keep the posts coming, i love reading them
ReplyDeletegrandpa just read all of the blog and is impressed.we just had sunday dinner and getting ready to go back to the Lodge. he thinks that Yellowknife has grown a lot since the last time he was there.(about 65 years ago). Hope you are having some fun sounds like a great experience , Ron and Grandpa
ReplyDeleteDoes it ever warm up there? Thanks for the updates. It has been fun.
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