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I'm about to hop in our car and hit the road heading east to the Canadian Maritimes so I thought that it was a good time to continue heading east on our Cross-Canada blog tour. We'll be continuing east on this tour but instead of heading to the Maritimes we're cruising up in the north to Nunavut.
Some of you might not be so familiar with Nunavut, particularly if it's been a few years since you studied Canadian geography. Nunavut used to be part of the Northwest Territories but became a territory in its own right on April 1, 1999 (no, it wasn't an April Fool's joke, we swear). The capital of Nunavut is Iqaluit and now you all are longing for the days when you thought Saskatchewan was the hardest Canadian location to spell (at least in terms of provinces and capitals...).
On to the blogs shall we?
Jen of Nunavut just announced that she is expecting a baby. So she's doing something that most expecting mothers don't - she's getting fit for an amounti.
Kate Nova recently found out something very interesting about NU elections and voting.
School is out for summer and Arctic Teacher is doing some travelling. On her travels she got to experience something very Canadian - her first cuppa Tim Horton's in 10 months.
Nunavut Newbie isn't so much of a newbie after two years. She's certainly gotten used to the North of 60 temperatures.
I love being outside when it's warm out. I know I'm acclimatized to the north because according to Weather Office, it was only 4C while I was outside. It felt like it was at least 15C, though. It was great.
If you are trying to do the temperature conversion in your head 4C is about 39F. And she wrote that post on June 17. If you think that's bad check out how much it costs to ship items to Iqaluit.
Northern Chirp is experiencing her first northern summer - and the long summer days.
Welcome to the world of 24 hour sunlight. Official sunset is something like 11:30 and sunrise is something like 2:00 right now (OK, scurry off now and look it up on your search engines), but lengthy twilights on either end mean no darkness. And if adults' bodyclocks get whacked out by this (mine certainly is), then imagine what it must be like for kids.
Contributing Editor Sassymonkey blogs at Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.
