Grande Prairie

We arrived up here Thursday afternoon. After a bit of an ordeal locating the campground we got moved in. Then we had a bit of an incident involving the sewer hose and had to get the camp host to come turn the water on but eventually we got settled. Yesterday I spent the day at Neufeld's getting oriented and figuring out what the project up here really is.

Today we have spent a lazy day. I did some work in the morning and Marilyn's friend Lorraine came for coffee. This afternoon we are cooking a Thanksgiving turkey. Ken is bringing a friend for supper. Tomorrow Marilyn is going to Grande Cache with Lorraine to visit Donna. I'll get a full day of work in on some ammonia code of practice stuff.

We're in a huge trailer park - probably 200 sites or more. And its open year round. It must be a real bear here in the winter but they stay open all year. Some of the rigs already have rigid pink insulation strapped to the outside of their slideouts. I can't imagine what it would take to heat an RV with propane at -40 but I guess accomodations are at that much of a premium up here. We have to leave our water hose unhooked at night. We can fill our tanks during the day but they want all the hoses unhooked at night so their plumbing doesn't freeze.

I think we'll probably be up here for close to 2 weeks. Marilyn has to fly out of Saskatoon on the 23rd to McArthur River. She has landed a project with Cameco and has to go to the mine to get oriented. I wonder if she will glow in the dark when she comes back. After that we'll probably end up back in Nipawin. I've got a meeting in Saskatoon at the end of the month but eventually it is going to get cold enough that we will want to have a real roof over our heads again.