This Could Be a LONG Weekend
Trip Start
Aug 22, 2008
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Trip End
Jul 2009
Inuvik,
Northwest Territories,
Canada
Saturday, August 30, 2008
It was a slow start to the day but I have made it into work. There was a wee bit of rain, but at 5 degrees and some wind it hits your face like hail. I'm also glad that I remembered to zip my fleece liner into my jacket.
Yesterday I promised Neil that Dan and I would go to the Trapper with him tonight. I will not stay late!
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Dan, Neil, and I headed off to The Trapper in a calm night with no need for streetlights. It was almost 11PM and the sky looked like 4PM in the South. We sat at the back bar and chatted to Mike, played some of the computer games, had a few drinks, and danced when they played fiddle music. It was a live band and they mostly played rock and roll stuff - but the place started jumping with the jigging music. Loving to clog - I got up and clogged to it. Later they had a jigging contest - but it is done in couples. Besides, Mike said my East Coast style wasn't real jigging. That's the truth -- because it's clogging!! There were some fast feet on that floor. It was fun to watch and cheer along with everyone else.
Neil and Dan commneted on how much people here can drink. We saw a table of 6 get a tray of 15 shooters and then beers and other stuff. They sure can go through the booze. Maybe it's just normal and I am not used to bars and how much people drink in them. However, they seem like happy folks. Neil figured that compared to bars he'd been in down South the people up here seem happier. They may drink a lot, but they aren't argumentative or sullen.
I have my own drink!! I asked Mike to make me something and he was about to put Southern Comfort in it and I stopped him and said that I didn't like most booze. I tried to be the control freak and tell him what to put in it and he wanted to be the lead control freak and did what he wanted. Ameretto and apricot brandy in pineapple juice - is now a Laverne and Shirley!! (In case you are too young - or not a TV watcher - Cindy Williams played Shirley.) If there are any mixologists in the crowd check it out and see if it isn't already a drink.
