counted wrong...still 10 weeks!

Another week of ex-tree-me planting has gone by!
Our bodies still aren't quite used to the whole hard labour routine but it's alright, made it through the first full week of planting and we aren't totally burnt out so that's a good sign!

This week was a little bit more eventful but not by much..
The weather here is HORRIBLE, for the most part at least. It's been raining here almost constantly and Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday were the absolute coldest and wettest days Nick and I have ever experienced tree-planting!
It was awful.
It did help me discover that the raincoat I brought with me is not actually a raincoat- just a windbreaker. So guess who was soaked through to the bone for the majority of this week!
Nick didn't have proper rain gear either so after 3 days of intense rain we decided to go out and get rain suits. Although it hasn't rained like that again yet, they're great!
The rain did push Nick and I to plant super fast on Wednesday meaning we both hit our personal bests of 10 trays! (That's quite a bit!)
It also meant we had to do a load of laundry every night though... that was kind of unfortunate.

Nick and I have gotten to plant together quite a bit this week which means we've been singing a lot of Disney... I think we're going to watch Mulan today...

Also, Jake and Aly are doing phenomenally and are getting better and better every day! They just left for Panama today though and we miss them already! Hopefully this week will go by quickly and we'll have them back here with us soon.

Out on the sites this week some funny stuff happened, a van got stuck in the mud, one of our trucks batteries died and the tree truck got stuck in the middle of the road too! Because of all the rain, the roads on our site are AWFUL. So bumpy and muddy and just terrible, our foreman has been doing a great job of navigating them safely though.
One day this week we ran out of trees so the next day we were told not to meet until 8! It was great! We were able to sleep in until 7:15 instead of dragging ourselves out of bed at 5:15! Although it was a shorter day we were scared we weren't going to be able to plant as much as we normally would but we managed to get a good number regardless.

Our crew is awesome and they're so much fun to plant with. Hopefully we'll all be able to hangout on weekends as the season progresses. We also got news that the New Brunswick trip is happening again this year meaning that for the last two weeks of the season Nick and I will be going out to New Brunswick to stay in a hostel with a bunch of planters and spend 10 hour days planting trees out there. We're a little nervous but still excited, plus once we hit that trip it means we're home free!
It already feels like we've been here forever and I can't believe we still have 10 weeks of planting ahead of us.

Nick and I don't have much to do this weekend so if anyone has any ideas of something fun to do let us know!
We might try writing a rap now...

Hope everything is well in Ontario!
Miss everyone,
Heather and Nick