Well, here I am, in
Inuvik for four months. I really didn't think there would be this much snow still or that it would be this cold (-15 last night). Everyone here keeps saying that it is much below normal. More about
Inuvik in a second.
The last day in Edmonton was awesome. Greg Wallace and
his grilfriend MJ came down from
Grande Prairie and we all went to West Edmonton Mall. Pretty average mall, until you come upon the two-level West 49 with a
skatepark in the basement and then see the roller coasters, ice rink, submarines and extremely large
waterpark all within the mall. Wow. We decided to do the
waterpark and after picking up some trunks headed for the largest indoor wave pool in the world and some pretty excellent water slides.
I visited the mall once when I was much younger (say 5 or 6?) and remember having to be saved from one of the
waterslides that is like a large funnel and drops you about 5 feet into a deep pool. What were my parents thinking letting me go down the slide? There are so many warnings about deep water swimmers only. Ah well. This time I slayed the beast. Then our day only got better as we returned to
Bri's pad had some drinks, watched the Sens game until the 2OT then jumped into a cab and headed to the Joel
Plaskett concert at the
Starlite room. Sweet venue that used to be a church I am told and it was a great show. After the concert we hung around and chatted with everyone from Joel to Peter
Elkas and Chris
Pennell. Simply awesome. Until I needed to wake up at 6 AM to catch my flight. Needless to say, not the best 6 hours ever spent.
Then I step off the plane and arrive at the bunkhouse at the forestry
compound on Shell Lake where I am staying for four months to find this:
And
the title of this posting flashed through my mind. Oh
geez. Well I'm sure it has to warm up soon right? Until then I will be comforted with
internet access in the office and CBC and
APTN on the TV in the bunkhouse. I
forsee lots of reading ebing accomplished or perhaps more blog posts...but I will try to keep them shorter than this. Always more news right at the start.
Cowabunga.
And the title of this posting flashed through my mind. Oh geez. Well I'm sure it has to warm up soon right? Until then I will be comforted with internet access in the office and CBC and APTN on the TV in the bunkhouse. I forsee lots of reading ebing accomplished or perhaps more blog posts...but I will try to keep them shorter than this. Always more news right at the start.
6 comments:
what kind of research are you going to be doing there???
Clearly i had not read your first post, so you can just ignore my previous comment. Good Luck up there! Hope you make some cool friends! Erin
Greg, I can not believe you choose to live your life up there. Poor decision.
That is all.
hey sounds like you had a great time in edmonton! hope you have a good summer doing what you love and making money :) be safe, don't let the bears eat you.
Thanks for the encouragement especially you Chase...ya jerk.
Im just joshin ya.
Eat the yellow snow. Polar bear urine is said to prevent many forms of cancer.
Stay fit and have fun.
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