Food Mail Arrives!

It was a happy day here yesterday as our food mail arrived via First Air.  Strange thing this food mail, you place your order online and within the week you receive a phone call from the airport stating that your order arrived.  We placed our order through Food Fare in Yellowknife on Monday and yesterday we received it. There are other stores that you can pick from and they limit what you can order, for example you can only order nutritious perishable foods like dairy products, meat, fish and poultry, fresh produce, eggs but can not order any prepared foods or fresh or frozen products which are battered or breaded. They do not want us to get 'addicted' to junk food even though it is available here.  You can buy veggies and fruit here but it is usually not fresh. It was like Christmas when we brought the boxes in and opened them, we were all excited including the dogs.  They pack everything really well and everything was fresh.  Like the old saying goes 'you don't know what you got until it's gone.'  This afternoon I think I will have a grapefruit for a snack.

Yesterday was a grand day here in Cambridge Bay, the sun was shining all day and the skies were blue.  I took Craig to work after lunch so that I could again drive around and take pictures.  I spent a couple of hours in and outside of the truck with Blitz.  We went for a walk just outside of town and he had fun pointing at all of the ravens.  I drove to where I seen the family of foxes and there was only one there, I am assuming the rest were either hunting or resting in their den.  There is no hunting within 1km from human habitation and these foxes are within that range. Drove down to Fresh Water Creek to see if it was frozen, there is still a small open area, still can't get over how clear the waters are here.  I did see a pack of dogs along the shore of the creek, about 10 of them basking in the sunshine. I picked up Craig just before 5pm and seen an absolutely beautiful sunset from the site, my first one that I had seen here.  Did notice yesterday that when the sun is shining here in the winter you need to wear your sunglasses, the brightness of the sun is crazy.

Our trip back south is booked except for the dogs, we need to inform the airlines that we are travelling with our dogs.  We fly into Yellowknife on November 9th, pick up the Edge and spend the night.  From there we will make our way down to Edmonton stopping at High Level.  We are wanting to be in Carman before the 13th as it is my mom's birthday and would like to spend the weekend with her.  From there hopefully visit friends and then head to Craig's mom & dad's.  We will be in Manitoba for about 3 weeks, our flight back home leaves Edmonton on the 30th so we will need to be there at that time.

The pictures today are a bit of a mash - scenes by the waters, pack of dogs by Fresh Water Creek, our local radio station, the satellites from the North Warning System Site, the sunset.

Talk soon!