Fort Albany, Monday March 11, 2012

It's March Break here in Fort Albany and all is quiet. Eerily so. It looks and sounds like half of the community's gone out for vacation. The minor problem being that of rising temperatures keeping the winter roads all but impassible for everyone excepting die-hards with the next best thing to monster trucks.

My mom arrived on Friday afternoon, the same day as intented and only two hours later than planned. She got the scenic aerial tour of our edge of the James Bay coast making it all the way up to Attawapiskat and back down to Moosonee before getting off in Albany. Gotta keep you on your toes!

So far we've have an enjoyably relaxing time of it; knitting, cross stitching, cooking, walking, and yes even a small dose of shopping at the Northern. A few of the teachers started up a small marshmallow fire in behind the housese this afternoon so that was an added extra for the afternoon. Yesterday we made it to the Catholic church down the road and I think she enjoyed the half English, half Cree service. She concluded that 'Hallelujah' was the same in both languages :)