Faye and Maciek's Adventures in the frosty Canadian North
This year for my birthday, my friends ran surprise birthday trivia. Different people wrote different categories, and the instructions were that the questions should be Faye-themed, but not actually about me. Here’s what they came up with:
There was also a picture round:
And, in case you haven’t had enough trivia, there was also a bonus picture round, and a bonus question round:
How did you do? Want to check your answers?
I apparently don’t have enough clubs and activities going on in my life, so I also joined the local Coast Guard Auxiliary. This is a volunteer marine search and rescue group (I’m also already part of the aerial search and rescue group). We did some on-water training this summer, which I managed to fit in between my many out-of-town trips.
I spent a few weeks up on Banks Island helping out with a caribou & muskox survey. We saw a bunch of those, plus plenty of snow geese, arctic hares, quite a few wolves, and a grizzly bear. I started an iNaturalist account.
We flew around in one of these…
…looking for these guys.
We got to see some cool Arctic landscapes.
