Winterpeg: Day 2

View from our hotel room

Average temperature for today: -42 people! Yah! That's freakin cold! Here is a lovely picture taken by my roomie to prove the chilliness of the weather here:

All bundled up. It was -42!!!

Yes, that is ice!!

But, back to the beginning of the day. Laura and I went to have breakfast at the Velvet Glove Restaurant in the Fairmont Hotel. Here is what a $42 breakfast looks like:

Banana bread french toast

Eggs Benedict with odd little juice shot thingy

Yikes eh!? It was good but nothing fantastic. Needless to say we wont be going back to the place! :) Haha blew our BCNU budget.

The day went on and Laura and I had nothing to attend until 7pm today so we went into town and to the Forks Market and shopped till we dropped and spent some time outside walking on their rivers which they skate on in the winter. We had a productive afternoon and both made our own scented body butter at this cute little independent bath products store. So much fun.

Then we arrived back at our hotel at just after 5pm and had a msg on our phone from the BCNU rep requesting that we meet her for dinner at 530!! ACK! So we hurried and changed and raced to the restaurant to meet her. We had a nice dinner on her and then proceeded to the entertainment for the evening. It was an action and introduction of the guests etc. The auction was supposed to last 20 mins, it took almost 2 hours!!! SOOOO LONG!! Then we had the band Hawk and Eagle, a native band play. Laura and I only stayed for a few mins of that as we were tired. We went back to our room instead with Aaron, the other guy who got sponsored to come here. He is very nice. (No, Anica, he is not single, he is married and I didn't go to his single room!!)

Anyways, that was pretty much the day for today. There are some VERY keen people here and it's funny to watch them get psyched about stuff. I am so glad that my roomie, and Aaron even are not keen conference people.

I am off to bed. It is almost midnight here and we have to be up at like 630 am to get ready to get to the meetings and speakers and such on time.

Goodnight from frigid Winterpeg!

P.S. Ok so the stupid pictures wont upload right now so I will add them to their appropriate places tomorrow when I have a minute because they are AWESOME!! So check back for pictures.