a random walk to the river

Awesome, gunna get this as a present for someone.

Dont know what this was exactly, it was just written on the side of a building in massive letters and I thought that it was neat enough for a picture.

Move over Kate Middleton, Kate Klondike is here.

These are some ladies Ive been hanging out with. From left, Kristen who is also from the Brantford ghetto. What are the odds eh!? Have to go across Canada to this remote little cut off community to meet someone else from my hometown. Then there is Jackie who works in the kitchen, then the tool in the middle is me. Michelle on the end.

Hottest. Picture. Ever. I was actually amazed at Michelles photography skills, because normall she takes the worst ones of me, but this one is kind of epic.

the "downtown". its so small and half of the buildings are fake haha.

Probably the best picture michelle has ever taken of me. This is down by the river, the water is very low and apparently I was standing on the river floor? It was freezing too! Wont be swimming in that.

Another picture of me and the surroundings by the river. Should be very pretty once the leaves and stuff start coming back to life.

This is apparently why a lot of people come to Dawson. The land slide like thing in the hill at the top at the left is called "the dome" and there is a trail you can hike up to and get this amazing view of the yukon. A couple people I work with have gone up there, I myself will have to work up to that Im a little out of shape to be hiking up massive mountains that some people bring oxygen tanks to.

The one and only ambulance station.

UPDATE:

I have had 2 FULL days of work so far, among other training like days, but these were full where I actually have to clean all day each and every room fully. Tomorrow we have our first batch of guests coming in and they're from Australia, so we were told to learn where the bars are and the hours of them (after taking my soci class I find this a little stereotypical). So god knows what tomorrow will be like!

The weather has been fantastic! I actually think I'm burnt a bit on my face... well that doesn’t really say much considering I burn so easily, but it has been great. It is FREEZING in the morning and then gets hot in the afternoon/evening and then gets chilly at night, so its either layer up or suffer with just a t-shirt on because you're going to be boiling by the afternoon. Thank god the hotel has air conditioning on already or else with cleaning rooms and with running around id be a sweaty pig.

The fan has still be going strong all day and night, Michelle and I have learned to keep it on during the day even while we are at work because when we come home it like a sauna in our little room. The fan is small, nothing like my wind machine back home – shout out to my wind machine! I have been trying to make my room feel more like home, but haven’t had much luck because I've been so exhausted once I get back from work and I want to relax. Doesn’t help to that EVERYTHING closes at like 5pm... I'm not a runner.

I now work this week from 830am to 430pm with no days off, I think my manager knows that I was looking for a second job, so she must of thought that I couldn’t get another one if I working 24/7 with the hotel haha.

Ugh I hate laundry. If I didn't have to do it I wouldn’t. In college I would go weeks without washing my jeans, if they were smelly or stained then they were good to wear all month. But no, since I'm scrubbing bathroom floors its a definite that I wash my work pants each week.. maybe even twice if I'm up for it. But I'm scared to death to put my clothes in the dryer! If I shrink my clothes.. and god forbid my work clothes.. then I'm outta luck. Ill pass on thrift store clothes for haning out.. and I doubt I don’t know if they would let me get another uniform just because I shrunk it. Who knows.

AHH! Had my first church supper tonight, it was delicious. First supper I've had since I left Whitehorse so its been a full week of just lunch at the wekstmark and then my miniwheats. But this supper was so good, I don’t know if it was just because I haven’t eaten like that in so long it tasted so good or if it was actually good. But I will for sure be catching the other one this Tuesday.