Weekend in Red Lake aka why you shouldn't trust girls with oven mitts

I had an amazing weekend. I went to Red Lake to entertain kids at the Norseman Floatplane festival (sciency stuff for kids).
Everything was great except my partner. I haven't met many people in my life, whom I just cannot stand, but she's one. She was just so whiny and complaining and unprepared and not fun. But I had a good time.

Friday
we took a plane from Ottawa to Red Lake with the (in)famous Bearskin airlines. It took close to 7 hours and 6 stops. It went as follows: Ottawa - Sudbury- Sault St. Mary - Thunder Bay - Sioux Lookout - Dryden - Red Lake.
In Sudbury I saw Paul for a few minutes, which was awesome!

We stayed at this Training Center, which was more like native culture center. Nice and clean though. Just the doors to rooms didn't lock. But who cares. I doubt that the bears are eager to come after me or my passport.

Catherine (my partner) and I had a dinner in town, and then headed back to our place. It's about 3 km into the forest. And then she just went to bed. I was at the TV corner, cutting handkerchiefs into 4. And then I met Mike and Mike and Ray and Tammy (from The Service) who were preparing for their show at the festival. And I managed to get a ride with them to the festival. The concert was great! I danced - one crazy eastern European, the locals were quite non-dancy. I also assisted Mike with beer drinking, as the pauses were too short to finish a beer, so I took care of the rest. At some point I met Brenda - an amazing cook (as I found out later) from Kenora.

Mike and I made it back to our Training Center just a bit before 2 am (at 2 am they locked the doors). And then we were in his room, chatting. All of the sudden there is a knock on the door, and I can see through the painted glass that it's my "roomie". She demanded that whether her friend is here. First Mike said "no", because I was thinking it's none of her business. But then she said that she's coming in, and I said I'm there. So she threw the door open and stood there in her pj's. And in one hand she had an oven mitt. It was 2.30 or close to 3 am. It seemed a little too early for breakfast. So I asked, what's up with it. And she - pulled out a long knife!
I was speechless.
And then she stormed away.
I went after her, and asked, whether everything is ok. She just wanted to sleep.
Well, maybe I had just wanted to chat before. Without all the adrenaline from the cold weapons.
So I took my pj's and stayed in the other room close to the morning.
When I sneaked back to my room, I had a very hard time to fall asleep. Still all this adrenaline.
The next morning she asked me: "so, what lesson did we learn last night?"
I was thinking to myself, that "she's crazy", but I said "I don't know".
It turned out that next time I need to leave her detailed letter, saying when I'm leaving, with whom, how, for how long, doing what, and when coming back.
Wow!
Really?
It is nice of her to worry about me. But it seemed a bit extreme.
So I just said, that I'm going out on Sat. night too. Period.

Saturday
the kids were fun!
At the evening my "roomie" just went to bed at 7 again. I decided to go for a walk. I saw a funny red sun. I saw a deer (or the deer saw me). I saw a snake. I went to the beach. I walked all the way to the town.
I wanted to find Brenda. She had told me that she's near the Beer Store. And there is a few storey building, and I just need to come in through the front door, go to the left, and make my way to the kitchen. First I missed the beer store. And then there were a few candidate buidlings. But - I made it.
She's a cook for the miners/drillers. Red Lake is the biggest gold "digging" place in Canada. Anyone wants to earn well, that's the place to be - the assistant gets 80 grand per year, and the experienced one 120 per year. Thats a lot. But then also they work 28 days straight, and then 14 days off.
So we had dinner, which was amazing. And then a few drinks. Brenda and Brent (one of the guys) and me. It was fun.
And then Brenda and I went to the festival, as Brent needed his beauty sleep.
I met a bunch of miners. It was fun:) And the music was provided by all natives band called Jamshack. These guys were so drunk that the singer couldn't even talk. But they played Metallica, so that I understood it was Metallica.
We got back at Brendas place around 1.30. We called for taxi, but they said it would take 45 min. And by that time the doors would be locked. So I stayed at her place:)

Sunday
I got home at 9 am. I was slightly worried that my "roomie" has woken up all the city and the cops are looking for me. But she was still asleep.
The Jamshack guys were playing their electric bass. They also were drinking already. And they didn't wear too much. But whatever.

The day was very nice. Lots of kids. Amazing pancake breakfast. I panned some gold from sand. I'm a pro now:)

In the evening I was quite tired. But I met up with Brenda and we wanted to go for a swim, but it was slightly chilly. So we just had tea and amazing cake she had made. And off to sleep I went. In my training center bed:)

We got back on Monday at 3 pm:)

Amazing weekend! And super nice place:)