WHERE MY PARTY PEOPLE AT??
sorry it's been so long since we've updated! so much has happened since we updated last meaning I will probably forget to mention half of it since there is so much to talk about!
FIRST OFF
- JAKE AND ALY ARE GONE! :'( they left us on Friday and headed back to Ontario to go to camp. We miss them very much already and can't wait to visit them!
we did manage to go out dancing with them before they left though and it was very fun! Their whole crew went back to Antigonish for the weekend so they were 2 of the only ones from the other crew left so they came out with ours and planted for the day on one of our sites.
It was very fun to have them around and I can't believe they're already gone.
It's kind of upsetting that they're gone to camp as well because our work is ending this week! we figured on having 9-10 weeks of work and so far we're only getting about 8ish. Tomorrow is supposed to be our last day of planting unless we can manage to get ourselves onto another crew for the next couple days and finish instead on Thursday. We're also hoping to get some work in the nursery for a couple weeks but we won't know if it's possible until around Wednesday or Thursday. Hopefully we can or else we'll have to sit around Antigonish for 3 weeks waiting for the fam to road trip up here, or we'll have to catch a plane home early! don't get your hopes up though we don't know whats going to happen!
Since we've been in Fredricton we've started like 5 different sites and have only finished 2 of them. That means tomorrow is a day of running around to 3 unfinished sites pounding in trees as hard as we can! It should be fun though since it is our crews last day together- hopefully we can grab some good pictures! Today we had a one day site that we managed to close up with almost the perfect amount of trees! It was AWESOME! It felt really good to be able to complete it as a crew together. plus it was some of the best land we've had all season! (finally...) There were NO rocks! it was beautiful. The ground just closed up around the trees wonderfully.
So far Fredricton has been super cool since all the planters are together we've managed to just hangout alot and get to know everyone really well. We've done some pretty fun stuff actually... like last night a bunch of us went out and played volleyball at some sand courts. It was one of the best nights of this summer so far! It's also nice to have some girls up here at the hostel! I was the only one for about a week until Aly came up with a couple other girls on her crew. We were then joined by a couple more last week and it is safe to say they're all awesome! One of the girls has a bunch of friendship bracelet materials and I've got one started that I'm pretty excited about. A bunch of us also made it out to a really nice lake yesterday and although it was pretty gloomy and the water was cold, Nick made it in the water with a bunch of other people while I took a nap on a towel. All in all Freddy has been very fun and we're sad to be leaving so soon! Although not so sad to be able to sleep in!
One last exciting thing to mention! This Saturday we went out planting and the night before Nick, Aaron and myself managed to get the majority of the crew hyped up to plant until 2 instead of 12. Once we got out there however, it was rainy and terrible outside and a huge thunderstorm broke out. Planting in thunder and lightning... a tad scary... it was pretty funny watching people running out of the plot though! Luckily no one got hurt and we managed to get a couple trays in in between the lightning storms... we then finished the trays on that site and even though it was only 11:30 and were supposed to move to another site, we gave up and went home. So much for planting until 2! lol everyone was pretty happy about not having to plant in the storm though.
ALSO we finally got our sweet pub crawl treeplanting shirts! THEY ARE SO SICK. we'll post pictures of them after the pub crawl happening on saturday? potentially? keep an eye out!
Anyways, it's getting late and tomorrow is a big day for our crew! Lot's of photoshoots and not so many trees to plant..
Good night everyone!
Miss you all!
Nick and Heather
Monday 27 June 2011
Tuesday 14 June 2011
FINALLY something exciting!
hellooooo!
this is just a quick update with some of the exciting stuff that's happened here this week!
-scary but exciting none the less-
the truck behind us was passing a car on the highway and another car came right out from a blind corner and didn't stop at the stop sign almost causing a head on collision! It was so scary to see happening behind us but luckily our driver reacted super fast and managed to avoid the car! He did however flatten a highway sign... I tried to convince everyone to take it with us but no one went for that...
Jake and Aly made it up to Fredericton yesterday with a new crew and they're doing REALLY awesome! and really enjoying their new foreman and crew! It's super sweet, hopefully they'll actually get some good days to make up for the junk they went through last week!
Luckily they have decided to let us stop working everyday at 4 instead of planting 6-6, it means a couple less trays but since we're working 6 days a week with only 1 day off we should make more anyways.
Nick and I are line-planting basically from now on because we both kind of feel done with the whole treeplanting thing hahah, classic end of the season "I wanna go home" feeling I guess.
Still looking out for a moose! we're heading out to a new site tomorrow so we'll have a whole new set of tree lines to search!
Hopefully we'll have much more exciting news to update!
Miss you guys and be home soon!
Heather and Nick
this is just a quick update with some of the exciting stuff that's happened here this week!
-scary but exciting none the less-
the truck behind us was passing a car on the highway and another car came right out from a blind corner and didn't stop at the stop sign almost causing a head on collision! It was so scary to see happening behind us but luckily our driver reacted super fast and managed to avoid the car! He did however flatten a highway sign... I tried to convince everyone to take it with us but no one went for that...
Jake and Aly made it up to Fredericton yesterday with a new crew and they're doing REALLY awesome! and really enjoying their new foreman and crew! It's super sweet, hopefully they'll actually get some good days to make up for the junk they went through last week!
Luckily they have decided to let us stop working everyday at 4 instead of planting 6-6, it means a couple less trays but since we're working 6 days a week with only 1 day off we should make more anyways.
Nick and I are line-planting basically from now on because we both kind of feel done with the whole treeplanting thing hahah, classic end of the season "I wanna go home" feeling I guess.
Still looking out for a moose! we're heading out to a new site tomorrow so we'll have a whole new set of tree lines to search!
Hopefully we'll have much more exciting news to update!
Miss you guys and be home soon!
Heather and Nick
Sunday 12 June 2011
Fredericton- the final stretch
We made it to New Brunswick!
Our crew merged with another small one this week for our trip down to Fredricton. We left at 6 in the morning on Wednesday all crammed into 3 trucks with our stuff in the back! It was a 5 hour drive but seemed like a lot less for some reason, must have been all the snacks!
The funniest part of the drive was crossing the border between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, literally the minute we left Nova Scotia the skies cleared right up and when we looked behind us there was a wall of fog showing the border of the two provinces! It was so silly.
After the drive we dropped our stuff off at the hostel, grabbed a bite to eat, then headed out to the plot and planted until 6. Boy is it ever hot and buggy out here! Out here we're on a schedule of 6 days of planting then 1 day off. This week was different since the company doesn't want us to get tired out we planted for 4 days and got today off. We're planting regular days still but starting next week we're going to be leaving earlier and staying out for almost 10-11 hours a day. I'm pretty nervous to work 6 eleven hour days in a row but since it's the last stretch of planting we're just going to keep pushing forward.
There are a lot more moose out here than there are in Nova Scotia and every morning on our way to the site I search the treelines desperately in hopes of seeing one and I still haven't seen one yet! THEN yesterday two of the other trucks saw 2!! and I missed it! I was furious. completely.
Nick and I did see a really big bear paw print though.. you could even see the claws where they dug into the mud. sooooo cool, but kind of creepy because you know there out there in the forest with you...
that's about all that's been happening over here! The hostel is a lot of fun, after work all we do is make dinner and hang out with everyone! Hopefully we'll make it through the next couple weeks and be able to come home to all you wonderful people in one piece!
Heather and Nick
Our crew merged with another small one this week for our trip down to Fredricton. We left at 6 in the morning on Wednesday all crammed into 3 trucks with our stuff in the back! It was a 5 hour drive but seemed like a lot less for some reason, must have been all the snacks!
The funniest part of the drive was crossing the border between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, literally the minute we left Nova Scotia the skies cleared right up and when we looked behind us there was a wall of fog showing the border of the two provinces! It was so silly.
After the drive we dropped our stuff off at the hostel, grabbed a bite to eat, then headed out to the plot and planted until 6. Boy is it ever hot and buggy out here! Out here we're on a schedule of 6 days of planting then 1 day off. This week was different since the company doesn't want us to get tired out we planted for 4 days and got today off. We're planting regular days still but starting next week we're going to be leaving earlier and staying out for almost 10-11 hours a day. I'm pretty nervous to work 6 eleven hour days in a row but since it's the last stretch of planting we're just going to keep pushing forward.
There are a lot more moose out here than there are in Nova Scotia and every morning on our way to the site I search the treelines desperately in hopes of seeing one and I still haven't seen one yet! THEN yesterday two of the other trucks saw 2!! and I missed it! I was furious. completely.
Nick and I did see a really big bear paw print though.. you could even see the claws where they dug into the mud. sooooo cool, but kind of creepy because you know there out there in the forest with you...
that's about all that's been happening over here! The hostel is a lot of fun, after work all we do is make dinner and hang out with everyone! Hopefully we'll make it through the next couple weeks and be able to come home to all you wonderful people in one piece!
Heather and Nick
Tuesday 7 June 2011
Big news and big cities
Good evening everyone!
We're sorry it has taken us so long to update everyone,
Although this past week wasn't the most exciting of times we did have some adventures and get some big news!
Last week was probably one of the best weeks so far! The site we had was being finished up and even though we had to deal with some slow days we managed to keep our numbers at a decent level and had a lot of fun doing it! A bunch of our crew members decided to quit for some silly reason but the ones that are left are real troopers! We had some great bonding time as a crew and are all prepped and ready for our trip to New Brunswick!
We started hearing rumors about the NB trip happening earlier than expected and on Monday got confirmation that we will in fact be leaving TOMORROW.
We got today off in preparation for the 5 hour drive tomorrow. We're driving up to our hostel in Fredericton, leaving our bags there and going out to plant for the day! We're pretty excited but at the same time very upset that we have to leave our home here in Antigonish.
Last week the white truck broke down the same day the driver quit! Fortunately (sort of) our crew was small enough to all fit into one truck together while Snow White (the truck) was being fixed. THEN NICK INHERITED THE TRUCK!
It was a glorious day in Nick's life, maybe even one of the best, when he got to drive the truck down those dirt roads and through all those big puddles. He says the little boy in him was just lovin' it! He gets to drive to New Brunswick tomorrow too which he is pretty excited about.
Funnily, the other truck (Quicksilver) broke down on Monday and unfortunately has been retired. She was doing so well and made it so far! We were afraid she was going to be out of time within the first week so making it 5 weeks was preeeeeetty good!
Finally this past weekend Nick's dad came up and we road tripped it out to Halifax to meet him with Aly, Jake and Robyn. After a very fun drive we pulled up to the funniest, tackiest little guest house there ever was! It was called the Fountain view guest house and was complete with a stuffed deer head in the front hallway, and the two and a half star rating framed and displayed proudly by the door! It was super charming and made for some good laughs and was in a prime location! Tim brought us around the whole of Halifax and it was great!
The very first thing we ended up doing was going out for a drink at Maxwell's plum and Nick and I discovered 1 1/2 lbs of mussels for $4.97! MAN I love the east coast. I would move out here on the sole basis of how cheap sea food is... and how much I love the ocean too...
We walked the harbour, saw Theodore tugboat, stopped in at the museum and learned a heck of a lot about the Halifax explosion and the sinking of the Titanic. We also walked up Citadel hill and made it to Point Pleasant to look out over the ocean. On our way out of town we stopped by the graveyard and saw the Titanic graves which was a little freaky...
We also went to Peggy's cove and climbed all over the rocks on our way back to Antigonish.
All in all a phenomenal weekend. It was so good to get out of Antigonish and see a big city again! The harbour was really really cool, watching all the shipping boats, fishing boats, sailboats and even canoers enjoying the water! Loved it! We also made it out to the farmers market which was soooo super cool, they had so many vendors and there was so much neat stuff going on.
Nicks birthday was great too! Sunday night we made it home and had a great big dinner of homemade hamburgers, sweet potato fries and ice cream cake. Also, since we got today off we were able to go out to the pub and watch the hockey game with our tree-planting buddies on Monday night and stay out all the way until 12!
We'll be working a lot longer hours in NB but will try to update as much as possible!
Miss you all and we'll be home in no time!
Heather and Nick
We're sorry it has taken us so long to update everyone,
Although this past week wasn't the most exciting of times we did have some adventures and get some big news!
Last week was probably one of the best weeks so far! The site we had was being finished up and even though we had to deal with some slow days we managed to keep our numbers at a decent level and had a lot of fun doing it! A bunch of our crew members decided to quit for some silly reason but the ones that are left are real troopers! We had some great bonding time as a crew and are all prepped and ready for our trip to New Brunswick!
We started hearing rumors about the NB trip happening earlier than expected and on Monday got confirmation that we will in fact be leaving TOMORROW.
We got today off in preparation for the 5 hour drive tomorrow. We're driving up to our hostel in Fredericton, leaving our bags there and going out to plant for the day! We're pretty excited but at the same time very upset that we have to leave our home here in Antigonish.
Last week the white truck broke down the same day the driver quit! Fortunately (sort of) our crew was small enough to all fit into one truck together while Snow White (the truck) was being fixed. THEN NICK INHERITED THE TRUCK!
It was a glorious day in Nick's life, maybe even one of the best, when he got to drive the truck down those dirt roads and through all those big puddles. He says the little boy in him was just lovin' it! He gets to drive to New Brunswick tomorrow too which he is pretty excited about.
Funnily, the other truck (Quicksilver) broke down on Monday and unfortunately has been retired. She was doing so well and made it so far! We were afraid she was going to be out of time within the first week so making it 5 weeks was preeeeeetty good!
Finally this past weekend Nick's dad came up and we road tripped it out to Halifax to meet him with Aly, Jake and Robyn. After a very fun drive we pulled up to the funniest, tackiest little guest house there ever was! It was called the Fountain view guest house and was complete with a stuffed deer head in the front hallway, and the two and a half star rating framed and displayed proudly by the door! It was super charming and made for some good laughs and was in a prime location! Tim brought us around the whole of Halifax and it was great!
The very first thing we ended up doing was going out for a drink at Maxwell's plum and Nick and I discovered 1 1/2 lbs of mussels for $4.97! MAN I love the east coast. I would move out here on the sole basis of how cheap sea food is... and how much I love the ocean too...
We walked the harbour, saw Theodore tugboat, stopped in at the museum and learned a heck of a lot about the Halifax explosion and the sinking of the Titanic. We also walked up Citadel hill and made it to Point Pleasant to look out over the ocean. On our way out of town we stopped by the graveyard and saw the Titanic graves which was a little freaky...
We also went to Peggy's cove and climbed all over the rocks on our way back to Antigonish.
All in all a phenomenal weekend. It was so good to get out of Antigonish and see a big city again! The harbour was really really cool, watching all the shipping boats, fishing boats, sailboats and even canoers enjoying the water! Loved it! We also made it out to the farmers market which was soooo super cool, they had so many vendors and there was so much neat stuff going on.
Nicks birthday was great too! Sunday night we made it home and had a great big dinner of homemade hamburgers, sweet potato fries and ice cream cake. Also, since we got today off we were able to go out to the pub and watch the hockey game with our tree-planting buddies on Monday night and stay out all the way until 12!
We'll be working a lot longer hours in NB but will try to update as much as possible!
Miss you all and we'll be home in no time!
Heather and Nick
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