Um....

So... It's been a while since I've written anything on here - Yes, I've been lazy.
Mom and I went on a road trip yesterday to Hay River. It is an odd town, much larger than either of us had been expecting, but nonetheless, it had an air of being slowly dying... like it was hanging on to a much more glorious past, and wasn't quite keeping its grip. We drove around, and left...being 500km away from Yellowknife, we didn't have much time to hang around, even if we'd wanted to. We left home at about 8:00 in the morning, and didn't get back until after 8 that evening, all in all about 1000km driven. In fact, if had we just continued going south (from Hay River, and not come back to Yellowknife), it would only have been about another 500km to Edmonton. haha.
We say BISON! WHOOHOO. We'd driven around for about four hours a couple of weeks ago trying to see a single one, and this time we must have seen hundreds. They were everywhere! Beside the road, on the road, crossing the road, standing, sitting, laying down, running, walking... eating grass... basically being bison. Bison are amazingly interesting for about three minutes the first time you see them. The babies are good for about four. Then they are simply bison - things you have to slow down for when you approach a group of them on the highway, generally a bit of a nuissance. But, I have seen bison.
We drove through Enterprise, NT. If Hay River is hanging on to a glorious past, Enterprise is just sort of hanging around. The place consists of two gas stations, one called Winnie's, which isn't selling gas at the moment due to a disected gas pump, and another place called... well, something. They have three gas pumps (!), all of them working. All the other buildings are slowly disintegrating shells; it's kind of depressing. In any case, I was thrilled to be in a place called Enterprise. I've been to the Enterprise! :) And I have a picture to prove it...
We took the ferry across the Mackenzie River. I never thought I'd be traversing the Mackenzie River. It was another one of those things where the thought is much more romanic than the reality. For hundreds of years people have been using that river as a means of transportation to and from the north. Its connecting waterways go on for thousands of kilometers, and I've had the experience. Somehow sitting in your car on a ferry, watching the water gush up between the grating at the front of the boat, peering into the mirror to make sure the semi-trailer parked eerily behind you is staying in one place, is not really how I'd thought the experience would be - but it was awesome nonetheless.
Aside from the bison, we say tons of ducks, and a few Sand Hill Cranes, which were very cool, but they would always decide at the very moment I was trying to get a picture of them, to go for walks through the woods. I did manage to get a couple of nice pictures though.

To save me some hassle, and to allow me to make all of my pictures available to everyone, I'm going to post a link to where I've postyd my pictures on Facebook - they say the link can be viewed by anyone, even if you're not a member. Here it is:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=120614&l=bd82b&id=570225360
Please let me know if it doesn't work.