July 28 – Civilization.

They managed to book another charter plane today and got us back to Ottawa. Civilization! Internet! Huzzah!

So we're back after a very short "adventure", having never made it off of Greenland and into the Canadian arctic. Disappointing, and we did not manage to catch the "arcticus feverus" like the cruise director ensured we would. On the plus side, when we get back I look forward to jokingly making this response:

Q: Did you see Nunavut?

A: We saw none of it.

While the tour company had a bunch of people at the airport to start sorting insurance claims, flights home, etc., we decided to flee the airport as quickly as we could. We just wanted to get away from them, and have decided to try to salvage the remaining six days of this holiday somehow in central Canada or possible somewhere in the US. We'll deal with fighting with the tour company when we get home.

So the rest of the day was spent on the hotel internet trying to figure out how to make lemonade out of these arctic lemons...