A rainy morning in Inuvik and I find myself sprawled on the couch in the half light coming in from the greyness outside. Our workload has dropped somewhat since our nestling banding blitz, which we survived! Last Friday was a bit ridiculous though... 14 hours out in the field banding somewhere between 60 and 70 birds! Ended with a late night over a glass of scotch at the neighbour's. It was actually pretty amazing, but you can't keep up that routine for too long! Good thing we only had three crazy banding days! We also managed to make it out to the Mad Trapper somewhere in there, as it was our neighbours' last night in Inuvik. We actually started that night sitting in a tent in their living room around the fire channel on laptop, eating chocolate cake... it was amazing! Then made our way over to the bar to catch some music by 'The Welder's Daughter', a hilarious cover band that are made up of an interesting group of people.
Anyways, today being a bit slower, and my stomach being a bit sensitive at the moment (been stuck with a stomach bug of some kind for a week now!) I'll be staying at home this morning to catch up on our backlog of data entry while Michelle goes out into the field.
And what's more, now that things have really dropped off, it sounds like we'll be coming home on the 20th! Which is a week from now! I can't believe it! I have to get better so I can quit moping and enjoy the last little bit of my time up here! We're still hoping to go canoeing and have a bbq/picnic with some of the people we've met here at one of the territorial parks down the road. And then there's the arts festival! And of course there's still work to do, like data entry, cleaning up data files, proofing, etc.
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