Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Date: February 14, 2006
Weather: -8°C and Clear
Sunrise: 10:21
Sunset: 17:57

This is Valentine’s Day, northern style! We didn’t spend piles of cash on each other, buying things we didn’t need or didn’t want. We didn’t make the folks at Visa happy at all in fact. We just stayed in, made dinner and had a quite evening to ourselves. We saved some money and had lots of fun too. Truth be known, I was too afraid to see the price of flowers to bother doing any traditional Valentine’s Day shopping anyway!

Those of you who know Lorie are well aware of her likes and dislikes. One of the likes, loves actually, is definitely diet cream soda. I don’t know why really - the stuff tastes awful to me – but she loves it. Well someone told her yesterday that there was somewhere in town that you could get this dreadful stuff, and it’s all I’ve heard since. Sure enough immediately after work she was off on a quest – the quest to find diet cream soda.

She came home twenty minutes later with a broad smile and a triumphant shout that “I’ll be damned, I got it! Inuvik’s not that bad of a place if you can find diet cream soda!” I tend to agree with her – albeit for entirely different reasons.

I’m not so sure about the diet cream soda thing, but people here sure do like their coffee – and strong and black at that. I come from a culture of tea drinkers, but there is something alluring with strong black coffee – especially in this place where extremes seem to prevail. Try driving 400 kilometers on ice and you’ll be happy that your buddy sitting next to you brought a thermos of strong black!

Ironically another friend 11,000 kilometers from here has set me on a journey to find a coffee maker that grinds and brews all in one. And for someone like me, for whom efficiency is of the utmost importance, that’s a bonus! I’ll bet it means great quality coffee too. My friend told me that she drinks more coffee because of the high quality product that this thing produces. I’m not sure that’s a good thing…well okay that’s probably a good thing.

Cheers!

1 Comments:

At 1:14 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

Coffee is always good especially as an aid with the refractory period you old folks may experienceafter some old fashioned keeping one another warm....yeh that's it keping it warm.

 

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