Lands Far Far Away: The Two Dinner Glutton!

Its been almost a week since my last blog. Since then we have gotten hit with spurt work (5 jobs back-to-back) and been to the city many times. We found this great place called Moxie's and they have 35 cent wings. (I just realized there is no keyboard character for cents - weird!) Our first time discovering this 6 of us ate 120 wings! They have hot, terriaki, barbecue, honey garlic, and salt and pepper. The best part about the wings is the breading! Following the trips to Moxie's we always go to the casino and try our luck at the table games or poker. The first trip I couldn't have been luckier, I was playing roulette and all my numbers kept hitting. Can you say 36, 34, 32, 14, 16, 12. Well the table could and it was awesome! I ended up buying everyone a late night snack, which is just a way of glutton saying a second dinner. We went to a chain restaurant called the Keg and ate like kings. I had a T-bone and Lobster and it was epic! The second and most recent trip to the casino wasn't as lucky, but I was playing with the casino's money so it even made losing fun.

We have enjoyed a few days off (since 1/29!) and are getting ready to get hit hard in the next 24 hours with more spurt work. I guess it comes with the job. Speaking of days off, I will be on days-off pay for the next 28 days! This is the best kind since it pretty much just doubles the pay to make incentive not to leave since they only have enough engineers to barely cover the work. I think there is one extra.

One thing that I have found here is that Canadians REALLY love email and texting. Everyday I get ~30-40 emails and people try to text me all the time. Luckily, I don't get texts so I don't have to worry about that, however its annoying having to explain to everyone that I'm not ignoring or mad at anyone since I never respond.

Canadian pillows must not be made with the same gumption that American pillows are... If you remember my first or second blog the pillow that they have here a complete crap. They are as flat as a board and have tons of nots inside of them so I went to Walmart and bought a pillow for myself. Well, luckily I bought two because the first pillow that I got is going flat!!! Maybe I just have a heavy head but its crazy that it would make the pillows flat. I am now on my second pillow and hopefully it holds up until breakup.

I have been asking alot of the experienced guys here when we were going to stay until. Everyone responds the same way and says - until the breakup. Breakup is defined locally as when it is too warm to drive on the ice and vehicles start getting stuck. Remember that we are doing all of our jobs in marshlands where the water is really deep - so we have to have the ice roads to get to the jobs. When breakup actually occurs is pretty much an act-of-God and no one knows the exact date. From others past experiences it could be as early as March 3rd or as late as March 24th. I guess that we buy our tickets the day before we are to go home...

I officially have another day to add as a favorite for food! Apparently on Sundays there is a ice cream bar with MANY "fixin's" like banana's, strawberry's, chocolate chips, etc... Since we couldn't find big enough bowls many of us had plates of ice cream - it got messy. =) Banana splits were inevitable.

I partially waited so long to post a new blog because I wanted to have pictures for everyone to see a little more of our life up here in the bush. Below there are pictures of my drive to a location, our king meal, and the cafeteria.