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Another week has passed and we have journeyed to our next lake, and another favourite destination. We loved calling Yellowknife home for 18 years, and have really loved this brief return engagement! Simon & Lenore have hosted graciously and scheduled extravagantly. We close the week tired, very tired, but it's a good tired! We drove up to Manning on Monday, and completed the trip to YK on Tuesday. It was amazing to see and drive on the bridge over the Mackenzie River. We recalled how when we moved to YK in 1977, it was mostly viewed as a foolish dream, but here it was in reality. The bridge is roughly 1 km, and with the earth extensions from each bank, it crosses about 1.6 km of the river. 

Dehcho Bridge

Once we had crossed the bridge, we were on the lookout for Bison, and finally about 10 km from YK, we saw a cow and calf alongside the road. 

Bison Cow

She kept trying to block our view of the calf!

We've been able to visit the schools where I worked, and I was honoured to present the Technology Award kept in my honour at Range Lake North. The recipients had distinguished themselves in Web Page development in HTML5. 

Tech Award

We enjoyed hikes to Cameron Ramparts, and Cameron Falls. Simon & Lenore also introduced us to GeoCaching—what fun! The markets have been very bad this week as varied concerns from the US Fed decisions to the UK Brexit vote have kept investors worried. I hope I will start to catch up soon! The hockey season ended on Sunday with the Pittsburgh Penguins winning the Stanley Cup. We enjoyed that! The Blue Jays are playing better as well, and scrambling back into the playoff picture. 

Along the way, we have enjoyed sending messages back to our children featuring our adventures in YK. After all, Erica was only three when we moved there, and the other two were born there. It has been great to share the adventure with them once again. Travis & Joanna shared back the arrival of our new sofa! As predicted, it covers our pictures! 

I understand it sleeps three humans with ease! 

And that's about enough for this week!