Faye and Maciek's Adventures in the frosty Canadian North
I finally got a chance to check out Snowking while I was out in Yellowknife. Maciek got to go two years ago, and I’ve wanted to see it ever since I heard about it. It was closed while I was there, but I got to walk around the outside and see the castle itself, which was nautically-themed this year.
*Snowking actually had to shut down two weeks early this year due to the unseasonably warm weather. This is the first time in 24 years that it has had to close.
The Meandering Moose made it to Tuk and back again this year!
Our t-shirt colour this year is lime green.
December is Feast Season in Tulita. Various groups host community dinners for the whole town. The Band hosted Tulita’s New Year’s Eve feast this year. As a rare treat, this feast was Chinese food. Now, there’s nowhere in Tulita where you can purchase Chinese food, so for this feast, Chinese food was flown in from Yellowknife on the daily scheduled flight.
I have a theory that all northern towns use the same supplier for their Chinese food. The Chinese food from Yellowknife tastes exactly like the Chinese food in Fort Simpson, which apparently tastes exactly like the Chinese food in small towns all across northern BC. For city folks, it brings back memories of Chinese food from the late 20th century, when the general idea was to coat poor-quality meat with lots of fried dough and then dip it in brightly-coloured sugar sauces.
