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!!!