Month: March 2011

March 3, 2011



12:30 rolls around and it’s time to head home. Suddenly the lights get real active, so the bus pulls over and we pile out on the edge of a lake just outside Yellowknife. No words can describe this show, the movement, dancing display was awesome. I have to say thanks to my mom, who made this trip possible! Thanks, mom!

March 2, 2011


Our last night at Aurora Village. No one seemed ready to go tonight, but we bundled up for the last time and headed out. The night started like last night, a great start and then it slowed down. What I noticed tonight was the type of people that travel a long distance to Yellowknife in the middle of winter. A couple from Korea on their honeymoon, a woman and her grandson spending her ex-husband’s life insurance payment or the family visiting their daughter spending a year volunteering at a woman’s shelter in Yellowknife. All of them seem to believe all that wander are not lost.

March 1, 2011





An interesting day. The Ice Road tour (on the road made famous by the show Ice Road Truckers) was educational. For all those who have wondered how those how the Howes, MaryAnn, Ginger and the professor got on the SS Minnow for a 3 hour tour, I now know. They were stupid, just like us. Luckily we were not marooned.

That night it was -40 degrees Celsius, which is -40 Fahrenheit, that is not wind chill temp, that is air temp!!!
The Northern Lights started with a bang and petered out, at least in our jaded eyes, but was still a great show.