Friday August 14th 2009, 09.54u. It seems another raven has flown into a powercable. Awefully quiet again, cause at the moment supreme you hear the fridge, the stow and the microwave all power down. Airconditioning in the building makes more noice than you realize and this is the moment you do realize that. And of course the internet connection, the brightness of the laptopscreen…… It all changes. But we were not as surprised as last time.
Unfortunately our conversation was about coffee and we had just concluded it would be a good plan to make some. Only 8 minuts without electricity this time. A shreek sound from the fire alarm, brightness of laptop screen back. Waiting for the router to come online again. Loading and turning on the coffeemaker.
Well, this gives me a perfect opportunity to make this post into a small update, since it has been awefully quiet on the site for the last two days. Wednesday was a day with work and a small walk to Rat Lake. We went by the two High Schools (St. Pats and Sir John Franklin) just to check them out. Rat Lake was small and since we forgot our insect repellent, we went by it fast to go back to the city. For me the walk resulted in two new bites. 🙁
Wednesday evening I reheated the risotto I made tuesday evening. It was quite an adventure tuesday evening to make it and I was glad it worked out fine. It again pointed out the different opinions the Chateau Nova Hotel and I have about a “fully equipped kitchen”. Despite the culinary handicaps both Judith and I were pleased by the result. Wednesday I was creative again in the kitchen (to cook something to accompany the reheated risotto) and made a “Hamburguesa Canadiense al pan”, or a Canadian hamburger (by Uruguayan standards that is ;-)) on bread. Add some baked out bacon, a baked egg, cheese and some ketchup to your burger on a toasted burger bun and you recreate the delicious burger I made.
Thursday we went to the “Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Center”. Quite a name, but it turned out to be quite a museum as well. A lot of information about the different Inuit people that live and have lived here, information about the early days of air travel around the arctic circle and information about the animals that live here. Insightful and truly remarkable at times. It also gave us an idea about how little people from Europe or other parts of the world come here. The guestbook in front of museum revealed the names some people from France, Germany, Belgium and one other Dutch family that had been there in the last month. Abundant were the names of Canadians and Americans. We do know the Japanese cheat, because we saw a few exploring the musem through the viewer of their cameras, but we didn’t find their names in the book. So we’re sure there must have been more of those.
After 3-4 hours well spend in the museum we picked up some groceries and went back to the hotel. No cooking this time, because we wanted to celebrate the fact that we were in Yellowknife for over a week now by going to a nice restaurant. So we went to “Le Frolic / l’Heritage”, two restaurants that were in the same spot. We still don’t know why it had two names, but the food was quite ok. After we try some other restaurants I should see if I could make a comparing article on restaurants in Yellowknife ;-).
Today our plan of renting a canoe to explore the lake was postponed again. More wind then was predicted yesterday and not as warm. We do hope the forecast for tomorrow is correct, cause we figured we would make reservations for the canoes and force ourselves on really carrying out our canoe-plan. At the moment it is work again. We’ll see what we’ll do this afternoon. It may be time to honour our good friend Tim with another visit.