Rendezvous 2005

I finally have two sleeping children and hopefully an hour to myself! Yesterday was my first time venturing out with both kids on my own outside of Teslin. I took Danica and Zachary in to Whitehorse to watch the parade and some of the activities that were happening on mainstreet. We met up with Jenn, Evan, Hunter and Nancy and toured the street together. There were tons of people out for the events.

There was ski-jouring races and the kids dogsled races - those kids just fly too!!! There was one there that could barely see over the handle of his sled and like the announcer said all you could see was eyes and teeth.

After we watched the kids sled races we carried on to watch a true yukon parade complete with an overheated car! I think they on purposely left the street open to traffic just to make the parade longer! They had everything from school buses full of girl guides to clowns on bicycles in the parade. They even had the handi bus and the MacCauley Lodge bus in the parade - what better way for the seniors to enjoy the parade than to be in it! The fire trucks went by with their sirens and air horns - Zach slept right through it and it didn't even phase Dani! Hmmmmm do we have future emergency services kids????

After the parade went past we carried on to the flour packing contest. They have some sort of a rig set up in the middle of the road with a harness type device a hand cranked pully type of thing and a whole whack of flour. The picture of the guy above is about to haul 624 lbs of flour down the road - i can barely carry 1 bag of flour!!

We also went to get some maple syrup taffy, it was very good but very sweet. They would boil the syrup and then pour it out onto some snow and roll it up with a tongue depresser.

Lastly we went to see some of the amazing snow sculptures, there was some abtract art, a dinosoar, and an anatomically correct mammoth (he had balls!!!). Overall the day was fantastic and after a quick trip to wally world, superstore and the chinese food place I set out for home.


A few days ago one of Northwestel's snowcats was down on the bay getting ready to lay some line when after his third pass over the same spot under the bridge he broke through and the snowcat went under - nobody was hurt. Yesterday one of the locals who owns a loader was down at the bay bringing some cribbing out onto the ice to get the snowcat out and lo and behold - guess what else is now under the Teslin bridge!!!

Merry Christmas (sorta)

Wow, my very first post!!! (thanks Evan!) Hopefully I have this blog thing figured out.
Today was a great day, we had Jenn, Evan, Nancy and Hunter out for a "Christmas" dinner seeing as they couldn't be here at christmas with us because of the -50 weather we had - the vehicles just refused to start! So we had christmas dinner with them tonight! Chris's co-worker Garry and his wife Jan also joined us tonight.
Things have been great on the homefront, Zachary is getting to be quite a big boy and Danica is just loving him to pieces! Dani has been providing Zach with a daily washdown on his face - with her tongue! She has been such a little helper- she comes to me if Zach is crying, gives him a pacifier and is always willing to share her juice with him. Zach has been sleeping well for us - usually about 5 hours at a time. My only hope is that he is like his big sister and starts to sleep through the night by the time he is two months old - time will tell!

It snowed here today and the temperature was at -7. I am really looking forward to the spring thaw! I just want to go outside and not have to wear 8 layers of clothes. I'm sure the kids are starting to wonder if it will ever warm up! I think going south for the month of April will be just great for us - it will make coming back up here a little easier knowing there is an end to the snow!!! For our dogsledding friends I'm sure the saying would be more along the lines of 10 months of winter and 2 months of bad sledding!

Dani and Zach