Oooh good! Some hugs are just absolutely necessary, and totally perfect. Look who we found at Iqaluit airport:
Driving to Ottawa, Lori and I listened to the first bit of "Writing Down the Bones" on cd - so we are both pumped to write! It gave us plenty to talk about, and by the the time we got to our bed 'n' breakfast, I had admitted my mistake in not bringing a computer so we could put into practice (the operative word!) the wisdoms, immediately. Here we are now, set up on Josh's coffee table (photo later!) having had the drive-by tour of town, been to the grocery store for Provisions-for-Pangnirtung, where we are heading tomorrow at 6am. Surely more about that later too.
Musings from the airplane: Iqaluit - my hand wants to put in that missing U. Three languages on the ticket, the PA and the Nunatsiaq News in the man's neighbouring lap, the man who is for all intents and purposes IN my lap! Tiny plane, big man, he's got the window and the armrests! Map at the front of the plane, thin red lines hopping all over the icy blue of Nunavut, but reassured, I see we are still on the firmer-safer-seeming black lined routes. Black for jet, red for turbo-prop....31,000 feet up, my novice eyes see clouds below with puffy berms and unbroken plains, now big boulders and bergs strewn below and shorelines of of ragged white outlining lakes of pure blue sky. Or is it ice and water? How can we be between the sky and the sky - thin blue above, heavier blue below? We're over the wing with no responsibilities for the in-case-safety of 70 others; who knew? We could have been the ones by the doors, who everyone would rely on to remember the cues and keep on the shoes! Mine are off, comfortably bare, now glad I misplaced my socks. From up here, the 349 kinds of flowering plants below are still a total mystery (photo? soon!) Will I see a phalaropy - or be too late? We are one day too late for free musk-ox burgers at the Premier's picnic!
Okay, that was airborne... now we are firmly HERE!
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don't want to pick favorites so want to comment on both! What? misplaced socks? don't cha know socks are going to be the #1 item needed? oy
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