Welcome to Clyde River

July 21

We got on the plane with all 12 pieces of luggage on board (phew!) plus our, ahem, 5 carry on pieces. Here are some pictures as we approached Clyde River. The window on one side of the plane was noticeably cleaner, but we did our best. And Logan was just waking up from his flight-long nap, so that was a bit distracting while I was trying to take them out my side (the sunny side).

The Clyde River airport.

Midnight our first night here. The bay is the view out our living room window, with the town to the side and up the hill on the other side.

July 22

In the morning the boys and I unpacked the stuff we'd brought on the plane while Craig was off to his first day at work. Then we went for a walk to the playground before lunch, with a stop at the beach.

In the afternoon we went for another walk to the grocery store. In total I would say we met about 15 people, mostly kids. They come right up and say hi (it's not hard to tell we're new here!) and ask the boys their names and how old they are. They love their blue eyes! Very friendly people so far, smiles all around. It's hard to relax and just be friendly back immediately - amazing how you just get used to not inviting conversation and feeling suspicious of people.

That night 82 pieces of our stuff arrived on the plane. A nice mixture of food, clothing, bedding, kitchen items, toys. It seems the kids have at least 16 cubic feet of toys. Perhaps more. We spent that night unpacking the majority of the downstairs boxes.

July 23

The next morning I unpacked and cleaned some more while the boys busied themselves with their usual unpacking pastimes - playing with boxes and paper.

This was someone snowmobiling across the bay at 2:00 AM. He made it all the way across, doing turns and fancy stuff. Couldn't get up the speed (and the snowmobile wasn't doing very well) to get back, though.


I'll leave you with some more pictures. Time: approx. 1:30 AM