Yellowknife- Day 2

Friends,

Bit of a much needed slow day here in the big town of Yellowknife. We managed to escape the snowstorm of Ottawa, but our bags failed to make it. No big events plus no luggage means walking around in search of socks.

Here's the rundown

• Enjoyed the weekend buffet at the yesterday inside our hotel- The Chateau Nova. Very good brunch- Lots of items and variety and well made. Price was about 20 bucks each, but the fresh fruit and scrambled eggs were well worth it.
• Tony Fisher and I hit the streets in search of toiletries and the famous "outlander" store. Shoppers Drug Mart is open and has equal prices to Ottawa. Outlander is closed, but from the window we can tell that this is the "nice store"
• We hit the local mall and are happy to see some stores open. I pick up some very nice swany gloves (mitt style, can zip them and have gloves that allow great dexterity. Not knowing if the bags we come, we get some very necessary socks. Zero cognitive dissonance here.
• We see many people with AWG team jackets on. I think the impact of these games will be tremendous given everyone around seems involved, but we can't just determine that by sight now can we.
• Everybody drives and walks on ice roads... that is on the frozen lakes. It's still quite shocking.

• After checking back to the hotel, we decide to go see the SnowKing. The monarchy in question is a man who moved here twenty years ago and wanted to build a snow fort for his kids. It just got bigger and bigger, and now he has a snow castle built every year on one of the lakes. He now has a $40 000 budget and a snow festival.

Me and The SnowKing!

Walked to an outdoor hockey rink that welcomes all and showed how diverse the population of this town is. Every NHL jersey from Canada was represented. Everybody has to take a turn shoveling.
Tony and I at Pilots Point

• We then went to pilots point for some city wide views. Met an official from Grand Prarie, and I obliged to take a picture with her to "make her husband jealous". She was just kidding, and it was nice to meet her and others on the trek

• The sun is so bright up here.
• I'm having a hard time buying stuff for people. It's the place and the people and the experience of being here (good and bad) that I'd like to give to others.
• We had supper at Bullocks again. I had Artic Charr and Caribou. Can't wait to get some pictures up of all the events
• Baggage is finally here and I am trying to relax before going full tilt tomorrow with the assessment.

Things to do still
-See the northern lights
-Man a dogsled team

Moment for a decrepit house that was once the house of "Frenchy" Cyr and his wild card parties in the 1930's