Checking out the sights

This year I didn't get to see the inside of the infamous YK Snow King Castle built on the frozen ice of YK Bay. Here is what it looks like on the outside at least.


As the Mummy of a five and ten pound chihuahua, the thought of chaining my dogs to a stick in the middle of an ice road in YK was slightly unlikely! Olivia is glaring at me as I type this sentence.

After checking out the Snow Castle, hubby drove us out to N'Dilo, a small community just past Old Town in YK. As we were driving into town, I saw what appeared to be a dog curled up into a ball in the middle of the snow covered road. (Keep in mind, Malcolm and Olivia were comfortably snuggled up on my lap, Olivia wearing a rhinestone encrusted pink velor hoodie, and Malcolm in his manly gray soccer hoodie)

Like the Southerner I am, I saw this dog and said, "Oh my GOD, HUBBY, what is that? Is that a DEAD DOG?! Oh my god, why is there a dog balled up in the middle of the road! Stop the car... STOP THE CAR! Go see if he is OK!"

Hubby responded by telling me this dog is very much alive and that it is in fact normal to see dogs roaming or even sleeping in the streets in various areas around here. Yes, even when it is freezing outside. Then as we drove by he said, "See Nat? He's lickin' his crotch."

Oh. OK.