So a bunch of us were talking the other day and we realized that a lot of our stories from Dawson could be completed with the phrase "That's So Ghetto.." i.e. beers at 2:30, panty cannons, living in tents, going to the Snake Pit (the bar that opens at 9:00... in reality, (outside the dawson bubble) these things would definitely be thought of as ghetto, but here... well, they're normal and totally accepted. But, the ghetto phrase has turned out to be a good laugh more than once..

Things here are going well. Making preparations to leave - i think August 22nd has been settled on, then to make our way thru edmonton and calgary and salmon arm and vancouver. it's going to be, as i've said before, hard to leave. i've decided to see about getting a second job for the last month. i have a lead on a job at the bank at the casino. that should be interesting. i'm taking in my resume at 10:30 tonight so we'll see how that goes. i hope i can work the hours around my other job. apparently the job will pay about 14.00/hr plus tips so it'll be good stuff.

jamie and i got our old time photos done yesterday - it was our day off and we had quite a time - i'm going to put one of the photos up as soon as i get around to it (hopefully within the next few days or so. after getting our photos done we went to the Trondek H'wechin center (sp??) (the native center) that is here - it's like a museum/cultural center - pretty nice displays and such. then we just did a bit of shopping and ended up getting some peach shnapps at the liquor store and making fuzzy navels and sat around playing IQ 2000 for a few hours - anyone remember that kids quiz game? jamie beat me but only because she kept rolling 6's and i kept rolling 1's... we finished the whole bottle and realized that when we get back home our tolerance levels are going to be way high! it was a successful afternoon, sunny, hot and lots of fun. photos should be up soon!

this afternoon i just hung out, made french toast and now am going to go to the gazebo by the river to read. i'm meeting up with my friend shannon at 9 and who knows what's going to happen. then, to the casino at 10:30 to do the resume thing.

hope you all are well and more to come soon!

susan