Our First Visitor

Moe came for her first visit to Dawson on November 05.

It's always a long and beautiful drive to Whitehorse but this time it was dark and snowy and a little precarious. On the way down we saw a giant moose with an amazing rack, then on the way back we got to see a small herd of maybe 20 Caribou. It was quite late when we arrived home and all went straight to bed. When we woke up the next morning it was -35...Welcome to the Yukon Moe!

Our visit was too short but we found time to go up the Dempster to the Tombstones and back where Moe got some wonderful pictures and we got to see 3 Porcupine Caribou. While she was here Moe came down and volunteered with me for the Breakfast for Learning program at the school a couple of times, which was great but the second time we arrived to flooded halls. They had to close the school for the first time in 25 years and you can imagine the mayhem of trying to send 240 kids home. Moe got to keep all the kids there for breakfast in the Home Ec room while all of the parents were called. Not an easy task you can imagine when some of the kids have to pee and we have to tell them the toilets are out of order. Luckily we came through the morning mostly unscathed and quite well fed. When it was time for Moe to depart Dawson she got a taste of what they mean by 'Yukon time' when her plane was running an hour and a half behind and there was no one at the airport to let us know. We ended up keeping her for another day since she would have missed her connecting flight. Thanks for coming to visit Moe! Let us know what you thought.

Picture: 'Ultimate Blue' taken by Moe Fezatte