A bit of a longer post for today now that we are a little bit more settled. Our furniture has still not arrived, so we're currently staying at the VPs house. He is coming back into town by August 31st, so we're really hoping we can be out of his hair by then. The house is very similar to what we're going to be moving into, so it's giving us a good idea and it's really nice. The ground floor is a living room/dining area with a nice big kitchen. Then there is a bathroom on the landing to the stairs upstairs and two bedrooms/laundry room with a bunch of shelves on the top. The house also has a massive porch that is also used for storage.

 Craziest thing here is probably the sweltering heat. I guess the houses are built to take in as much heat as possible which will be amazing in the winter, but right now the temperature of the house is 27 degrees...same temperature as Kingston today! Outside its not too warm, but we went for a walk around town in capris and sweatshirts last night. The landscape can be described by its absolutely stunning rock and ocean views. The kids just run around everywhere like wild things, loving the land and the long hours of daylight they have this month. They are very curious about us and clearly knew we were coming and that we would be together. I can't say enough about how friendly everyone is...everyone says hello when they pass on the road, and they all welcome us and ask what grades we'll be teaching. We were wandering around last night and people kept driving up and making sure we weren't lost. The town just keeps growing...there are actually about a thousand people. So maybe one day soon we'll get a fast food restaurant :P

Only a couple things have gone wrong...two of Jon's bags, including his guitar didn't get here with us, but they arrived on a plane today and were delivered to our door. Also...mid-walk last night we were in the middle of town and what we assumed was a wolf walked right in front of us (Note by Jon: We saw it in the distance). Thankfully it turned out to be a wolf-dog who was chained up and didn't seem too bothered about us. Grocery prices are STUPID high. Last night we bought a pizza, a loaf of bread, some jam, popcorn and a frozen ice tea and it came to 48 DOLLARS! Thankfully the VP is going to bring us some stuff from Yellowknife when he flies in, like vegetables.

 We had the opportunity to get into the school today and see our classrooms, as well as get an entire box of curriculum material, so we've spent the afternoon planning. We're going out on a walk this evening with the assistant manager of the Northern Store we met this morning, so hopefully we'll be able to post some pictures soon!