I have experienced quite a few new things this past weekend. This weekend Inuvik has been celebrating the Return of the Sun Festival. (Yay! It's back!)
Saturday I went with my new friend, Holly, to the Tropicana commercial thing. I met her at her house at 9:30 am. It was about -30 or -35 outside. We walked from her house to the elementary where they were going to light this big balloon. We didn't actually know what all was going to happen but we wanted to go see. So we stood there freezing...well...only my toes were freezing...but we stood there for a half hour or so waiting for something to happen. Finally they turned on a light inside this huge balloon which was about 25 yards off the ground. They were filming people and such and Holly and I were like, 'Is this all?' See, we didn't know what was supposed to happen so we didn't know if that was all. So we figured with how lame that was it couldn't possibly be the exciting thing everyone was talking about so we stood and waited another half hour. By then it was 10:30 and we decided to start walking back because it was too cold. We went to her house and thawed out then we thought we could drive up in the truck and sit in there to wait cause it would be so much warmer. By the time we got back there everyone was leaving. We couldn't believe we stood in the cold for that long just to see the balloon lit up. So we went home.
That night Shane and I had his friend, Justin, over for supper then the three of us went to the fireworks and bonfire. It was all part of the festival. That was pretty fun. I felt like a marshmallow I had so many layers on. But...I didn't get cold! I loved watching the fireworks. Shane said they were much better than the ones he'd seen here in the past.
Then last night we went to the Snow's house. They are a family from our church. Mrs Snow made split pea soup..gluten free! Yummo. I loved it. After wards they had dried moose meat so I thought I oughta try some. It was okay. Not my favorite but it was good. Then after that they taught me a popular game up here called Crib. It was really confusing but I was starting to catch on.
So anyways that was my exciting new weeked.
hehe! i wanna try moose meat!!
ReplyDeleteHi ya Sands! How's it going? I should email you. Keep thinking about it...just need to do it. Can't wait to see the new baby eskimo! (or pictures at least) :) Chris Shull & fam. came to our church last night. Made me think of you up there in that cold. Well, keep warm and don't freeze! Love you!!!
ReplyDeleteyou're so mega lame snads,either that or im jealous because your stories sound kind of fun.but in any case...you're so lame snads!
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