The opportunity to go shopping in Cambridge Bay is very exciting for me, and I'm sure for a lot of other people too. This is why the fact there was a blizzard did not stop us from going shopping at the bazaar.
Of course, walking through a blizzard is not the easiest thing. Even with my parka to keep me warm, I had to battle the winds which threatened to pick me up and blow me away like a kite. And to protect my face, I had to pull my coyote fur-lined hood down low, which basically means I had no peripheral vision while walking. You'd hope that as I'm blindly stumbling across the street that the drivers in the car would watch for me, but I find that their peripheral vision is often limited by their parka hoods too.
It's kind of surreal to listen to Teen Daze's Beach Dreams record while walking through the Arctic blizzard.
Once I got to the Bazaar, it was clear that I wasn't the only one battling the blizzard to do a little shopping. The high school gym was packed.
Vendors included crafts, Mary Kay cosmetics, Bangladeshi food from Salma's Kitchen, photography from Denise Lebleu Images (our band photographer), a bake sale to raise funds for the food bank, and Red Sun Productions selling their famous prints on muskox poo paper.
I had gone to the bazaar with the intention of buying Christmas gifts but as you can see I spent most of my money on food. Again.
Oh well, I could always run into the Future Shop at the last minute on Christmas Eve...
