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
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