The last week has been busy with cleaning house, arrangements for coverage of my office, gift exchanges and deliveries, shopping for my food pack, mailing post dated cheques and finally left Edmonton on Tuesday afternoon after doing my usual stint of staying up most of the night packing. Must admit I was pretty zapped....but thankful to finally get on that Air Canada flight to Winnipeg...not the only sleepless traveller as sat next to a university student just finished exams. 

Christmas is evident from the carolers in the Winnipeg airport to the tall decorated tree here. The sun was bright but got progressively colder as further north on Calm Air, a smaller  plane that was first de-iced before about a four hour flight with stops in Thompson and in Churchill Manitoba. These photos were taken in the airport where there was an hour stop at noon.
I did abit of a walkabout but with the flags straight out that wind made things bitter. All the trees were covered with hoare frost and very beautiful.  The sign says beware of low flying aircraft. As we left the edge of the ice on Hudson's Bay could be seen.

I arrived in Arviat about 1230 PM and of my four pieces of luggage, found it ironic as one had to choose which one were to be designated "excess", the only one that got unloaded at the same time were my skiis. The other three which included my frozen food pack did arrive later in the afternoon.