It's the little things in life...

When you live in the bush, it's the little things in life that become important.

Last night, Lindsey invited me over for dinner.  She had gotten a head of cabbage, and made corned beef and cabbage.  It's amazing how tasty that cabbage was!  And cabbage is one of those veggies that doesn't have a lot of nutrients or flavor.  But...oh man...was that a gourmet meal!

The ability to go to the store and get something as silly as birthday candles is also something that you don't think about.  For Rick's and Lindsey's daughter's birthday, we didn't have any candles.  So what do you do?  There's no Wal-Mart.  There's no Walgreens.  Well...there is, it's just a $500 flight away for a $3 pack of birthday candles.  So, what do you do?  You light a lighter and have her blow it out...11 times, once for each year she is old and one more time for good luck!  Yes...that's how we roll in da bush!

Internet also is very important when you live up here.  It's a life-line to everyone from back home, all the news in the world, etc.  When the internet goes out...bad things happen.  A couple of weeks ago, the internet went out for a week.  We were pretty sure the village was going to riot if the company didn't get up here and fix the internet issues.

You don't realize how important the little things are (like cabbage) until they're gone.