Monet's Garden

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[mummm.livejournal.com]

We went to Winnipeg, which was super, and then took the VIA train up to Churchill, Manitoba which is "The Polar Bear Capitol of the World" and is on Hudson Bay in the Arctic Circle. We saw so many things there! To me it was like going into outer space because it was SO different. That was a WONDERFUL trip. (But it was *pre-digital* for me. christinA was 13 at the time I think. She is now 26) There are pictures... I should scan some.

I'm sure that you remember me carrying on about how wonderful Kaua'i was when we went there for my daughter's wedding two years ago? There are tons of pictures in my galleries about that trip. Robert and I also went to Oahu and Mau'i a few years before our daughter was born.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I must go look at your galleries.

I've never been anywhere as extreme as the arctic circle. The furthest from home I've been (culturally, that is) is Egypt.

[mummm.livejournal.com]

The arctic circle area is fascinating. Now understand that we were there in July. You could still dig down to the permafrost then. The ice had only recently cleared off of Hudson Bay. The pine trees there look like bonsais and they are hundreds of years old. They get some berries in July but they are the tiniest things you have ever seen. People there have to be TOUGH let me tell you! Then you have the extremes of very long days, or very short ones. There are times that it never gets dark, and other times when it never gets light. The northern lights are absolutely beautiful there. Even in Churchill there is NOTHING fancy though they sure know how to keep things working. Now they depend a lot on tourism to just be able to live since the laws on exporting furs, etc. have gotten very extreme. The area is quite depressed in some ways.

I am very sure that you would enjoy going though! It really is like being in another world.