Accounts of living in Yellowknife (a work in progress, this site and my life)

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Woah Caribou Carnival

Yes. Its time to get out of Yellowknife again before i go nuts again. Ill be tearing up calgary this easter weekend, which is still a little while off so i will be going nuts doubtless. I will be going with mark to drive the 20hrs to do some shopping and remind myself what civilization looks like. If anyone is near calgary around then let me know.

This friday us city workers got the afternoon off for Canival! The weekend was characterized by Caribou Carnival which is characterized in turn as follows:

1. Neon purple snowsuited lady who dissapears into the swirling snow and glaring sun before you can take a picture of her, but you swear she exists (just like the Yellowknife Yeti).

2. Lots of dog shows, fashions, poop, owners, leashes, races, sleds, barking. Everything revolves around these 4-legged critters.

3. No caribou, oddly enough, or derivatives thereof (i.e. burgers).

4. No muskox burgers.

5. Lots of johnsonville bbqed sausages from down south.

6. Japanese tourists - usually easily identified by the red rental parkas are now slipping amongst us unseen thanks to this years hotness - new blue rental parkas.

7. Some bangin fireworks.

8. Yuppie mothers and their 1000$ carriages that still get stuck in the snow. I use 'yuppie' as a derogative term, but in reflection it is an acronym for my own circumstance and not really a bad thing. Though i still dont like 1000 $ carriages. For 1000 $ a carriage should be rocket propelled and have mag-lev capabilities.

9. Lots of people in from the northern communities in for a last hurrah before the snowroads melt and they are once again more or less (more more than less) stuck again.

10. Me in various 15 minute intervals over the weekend as the events only really entertain for that long. I kept going back hoping to be more entertained to no avail.

Here are some pictures. Also, as an aside this is a funny article that reminds me of my old dog who passed the worst gas after eating from the compost pile, but this is a man. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/story.php?story_id=411


This is the dog fashion show. I had an easy time composing this picture as when applying the rule of thirds the wide-ass in the middle took up an entire third. Note the dogs who dressed their owner in pink camoflage (only good if youre trying to fade out of sight from someones drug induced haze) and took her to the fashion show.
This is a mouse in cheese snow sculpture. It really doesnt look like thats what it is from this angle.
This is more snow sculptures and a view down to the lake where the rest of the fesitivites take place.

Dogs and sleds and sleds and dogs.
Again. There's a lot of people watching this thing.
I finally bought some wheels. The cool thing is that the guy who sold it to me said it can fly. No. Just kidding. This is the ugly dog and wife, or truck and dog contest or something.
The snow sculpture is ok. It's a tee-pee. Priceless is the mascot who is standing around.
That is once again the end.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

How hard is it to race in a dogsled? Have you thought about going for it?

10:06 PM

 

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