Last evening was the kick-off to the 52nd Annual Muskrat Jamboree here in Inuvik. It marks the end of Winter and is the 6th to the 9th this year. Last night, at the Rec Centre, they had a free feast for all, Inuvialuit drum dancers from Inuvik and Aklavik (a-KLAV-ik), a jigging (Gwich’in dancing) contest and little games like musical chairs for the adults, blindfolded pudding feeding, etc.
We conveniently didn’t take our camera. I lifeguarded right after the daycare until 8:30pm, so hadn’t thought of it beforehand.
This morning at 9, Graham and I went to a pancake breakfast at Ingamo Hall (ING-gah-mo) down the road. I broke the news to Graham late last night that the breakfast was $10 each…it was worth it though! Big pancakes, sausages, bacon, two hardboiled eggs and any kind of juice you’d want. We were fortunate to sit by Mike, who races dogsleds and has offered to drop by the pool sometime to see if we’d like to go for a ride. Yup, yup we would.
Graham works 12:30 to 8:30pm Wednesday to Sunday now. I’m going to head down to the river to see if I can find the dogsled race. May be too late.
Jen
PS: If you’ve ever seen Office Space – ‘No Tears’ just came on the laptop. Michael sings it in the car stuck in traffic…
Dogs back from the sled races. (Alaskan team)
Dogs back from sled races. (Alaskan team)
Dogs back from sled races. (Alaskan team)
Dogs back from sled races. (Alaskan team)
Is that frozen snot on the dog's nose? Crazy. That must have been really cool.
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