It’s now been over four months since we moved to Yellowknife. I probably wouldn’t go so far as to say it feels like home but it’s certainly starting to feel familiar.
We were walking to work one day last week, enjoying the relative warmth of -18 degrees and Nicole mentioned how it was only -19 the day we arrived here and how we thought it was absolutely freezing. It now seems like an eternity ago when we walked off the plane, I was rushed to my job interview and then I felt like I couldn’t breath when I was walking down the street.
We now feel like we’ve acclimatized, but apparently we’re not even close to being considered locals until we’ve survived a whole winter here. So fingers crossed our work permits are extended beyond July.
My work environment (in the Planning Department) has me surrounded in maps, and it’s amazing how much water is around Yellowknife. I’m excited about the on set on the apparently amazing summer here for a number of reasons – the warmth being an obvious one, and to see this place without a cover of snow is another.
We went for a walk a few weeks ago and were walking across a lake when I took a short video of Whare trudging through the snow behind me. It’s funny how for 8 out of 10 steps the snow is quite solid and then every now and again your foot mysteriously sinks down to your knee (or in Nicole’s case her waist)! Walking on water in Yellowknife:
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April 11, 2009 at 2:02 pm |
Yeah, that’s common when you go off the path, because our snow is so dry. It doesn’t pack together very well.
My brother, the Capitalist, came to visit last year. He rented snow machines and went for a ride, and at one point he figured he’d head off into the “fresh snowdrifts”. He sank about ten feet. Pretty funny.
April 18, 2009 at 4:10 pm |
Hi,
Welcome to Yellowknife. I hope you guys get to experience a Yk summer. They are nothing like winters.
April 23, 2009 at 5:06 pm |
Hahaha! I love it. Looking forward to seeing you two soon.