Guess what… I’m a firefighter now!
I get to spray the hoses and everything. The part of me that is a five-year-old boy is very excited about all this.
Firefighter Faye
Written by: Faye
North of 60 – Yellowknife and the Waterfalls Route
Written by: Guest Blogger
Flying into Yellowknife you see how sparsely populated the north is – even this southern part of the north. There are small lakes everywhere, which seem to occupy about half the land but few signs of people. Even though it is the largest city in the NWT it seems smaller than it’s population of 20,000 and you can pretty well walk from any of the hotels to the old town and the new brew pub called the Woodyard which also has great food. The museum (Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre) is fabulous and also has a great cafe. The restaurants are fun and serve fresh fish from Great Slave Lake.
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Okay, this is how far our guest blogger made it on her description of Yellowknife and our southern NWT road trip. So instead, here are some waterfall photos:
And some wildlife photos:
Kitchen Update
Written by: Faye
Today we finished the remainder of the 30 kg of flour that we originally brought up with us making a pumpkin pie. That means that we’ve been averaging about 2 kg of flour per month. We have also been making pretty slow progress through our grains and pulses, so we are still reasonably well stocked with those:
Our spice selection has actually improved while we’ve been here, due to people generously shipping and bringing us spices. Our spice cupboard is actually a little overcrowded these days:
