busy busy day

what a day! ian's last day of work before christmas vacation was yesterday, so today was a big day of fun. i have to admit, though, that i'm feeling a bit jealous. i have to go back to work for a whole week before my vacation starts. damn! anyway, here's what we had going on today:

here's the sun rising. this photo was taken at 10:00 am. today was the first sunny day in a while (usually it's just greyish) so it was nice!

here's the sun going down. this was about 1:30 pm. see you later, sun. it was fun while it lasted!

we drove down to apex to hang out for a while. have you ever heard of apex? it's a part of iqaluit, but it's a few kilometers down the road. the road is called 'road to apex' so if you're ever kicking around and trying to find it, don't worry. you'll find it. anyway, apex is where mainly inuit people lived when iqaluit was a military site. it's basically just a very small neighbourhood. 

here i am in this boat. i was going to sit down but it was cold and i didn't want to get you-know-whats. you know what, right?

here's one of the husdon's bay company buildings. it's on the beach in apex. there's another one next door to it.

here i am as an elf. i was helping with the city of iqaluit's kids christmas party earlier and it was a real hoot and a half. i was a very popular elf in a giant elf suit. 

now we're watching elf! i think this is what it feels like to have come full circle. 

please don't judge the one strand of popcorn on our tree. i'm trying to get the gusto to finish the popcorn stringing but it's messy and my fingers get greasy! 

noon!

this is where the sun chills out at noon here right now. 

dark dark dark

hi friends! sorry i've been such a bad blogger. i really have to blame the internet. we now pay $120/month for 10 gigs of internet. for those of you who don't know how much 10 gigs of internet is, it's really not a lot. 10 gigs is an appropriate amount of internet for someone who doesn't really understand what "the big deal with the internet" is. it's like being given 10 bites of spaghetti per month. for $120.

anyway, it's starting to get dark really early here. yesterday i left work at about 5:10 and it was already dark.

seriously! 5:00pm!

here's a random photo i took last week when we went on that long walk. this is right behind the school ian teaches at. i'm jealous of his view every day. the view from my office is four very lovely beige walls. ian's going to write a post with some pictures he took at school last week. spoiler alert! the photos are awesome.

in other news, we bought a car! huzzah! i think the car will help us not feel so alone. wait, did i say "us"? i meant me. ian is much less dramatic than i am. picture me sitting in our apartment rocking back and forth brushing a small strand of my own hair over and over and over. that's how fun it is to live in nunavut! just kidding, it's funner than that creepy scenario. we keep having to spend money on taxis to get groceries, etc. and we're sick of it! cabs are $6 per person to go anywhere in iqaluit. we got a good deal on a fancy little suzuki. today i'm going to get my nunavut license picture taken. wish me luck!