A sad farewell to Yellowknife!

All too soon our holiday is drawing to an end and we leave Yellowknife to morrow.Yellowknife started out as a collection of tiny log cabins in the mid 1930s after gold was found here.Two massive gold finds produced 2 very active gold mines and it attracted prospectors from all over Canada.It is situated on Great Slave lake and was named after the Dene 1st Nation Aboriginals.  To day people from all over the world live here.We have never been in a place so remote and so beautiful ,right in the middle of the wilderness.There are 4 official languages here and this is home to Inuit and Metis as well as Dene Aboriginals.First Nation peoples have kept their old traditions of trapping and hunting and mothers carry their babies very snugly in their parka hoods! We have had the time of our lives,every day action packed and we will be so sad to leave it all. We have been given a taste of a way of life that will definitely entice us back….we loved and lived every precious second up here…we made some wonderful new friends…we went dog sledding,ice fishing(Emily caught a pike and within minutes it had frozen solid)…we went on the ice road at 1am,-25 to view the amazing Northern Lights ….we went to a film festival in the stunning ice castle …we skidooed through the wilderness over frozen lakes and portages to Pauls winter camp(wow) and did and saw more than we ever dreamed.Sadly,we l say goodbye,the hardest part but we l be back!