Barkerville opened today so we had to go for Chinese food for lunch and stock up on soap candies! It was a beautiful day, warm and sunny. There is still a lot of snow piled up… Banks up to 12′ still. Run off has created a river running down Main Street and a huge deep puddle right in front of the school house which appropriately had boys in gum boots splashing around in it. Our favourite waiter at the Lung Duck Tong was back this year after taking last year off. We were his only customers so we got to spend some time catching up with him And enjoyed an amazing meal… We sure miss them in the winter! The big talk about town was the Kelly General Store building. It is right beside the big hotel and when the snow slide off it jarred the Kelly building askew… Not sure you can see it in the photo but the top part of the building has shifted about 8″ to the left. It’s really obvious when your standing right in front of it.
It was nice to see all the actors and other employees, we don’t see most of them all winter. The second biggest topic on everyone’s mind was how brutal the winter was. Made me feel better, I thought I was being a wuss but as it turns out, everyone felt the same way! We will probably go back again on the weekend, it was a quick visit today just for lunch.
Stay tuned…