Tragic News

There was a plane accident yesterday on the charter flight that we take to get to our work site eight people were on that plane including the pilot, seven people died and one managed to crawl out of the plane before it caught on fire. I knew one of the guys quite well, he was a very young and talented engineer who created 3D drawings of our work site and showed us how it was going to look afterwards. The pilot was the man who flew me in on my first flight very friendly and knowledgeable. I pray that their families can find some sort of peace and the others who were lost in this tragic incident. Here is a news article on the story:

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=171bbaf0-97c6-49d1-a155-23c54756cf68

When things like this happen it really make you realize that you should take nothing for granted and always tell your friends and family how much they mean to you. As for me I know I have the best ones out there.
Miss & LOVE all you guys. Wish I could be surrounded by you now.

XOXO - Mol

I love the mountains...

Just another rough day at the office… So I haven’t posted in a while due to my very busy schedule up here. I start work at about 6:30am and if you start at 7:00am you are considered a slacker. I try to be done by 6:00pm so I can have some time to unwind. Even though I am very busy, I have loved my job I get to get out of the office everyday and play around in mud and water and do manual labor. Then in the office I do a lot of permitting making sure that we are compliant with the government and the Klahoose (The First Nations tribe out here). Which really hasn’t been that bad.

All the people here are quite nice, but I have never worked on a construction site before and the language is quite colorful. You also have quite an array of people here from kitchen staff to craftsmen, all the way up to your lead engineers and staff.

Right now I am counting down the days until I get to leave for my turn around 5.5 days and I will be out for ten days. Over my break I plan on going to opening day at Whistler (the ski mountain up here), opening day is on Thanksgiving so if anybody wants to come and join me feel free! Everybody up here will be working because they do not celebrate Thanksgiving the same time we do. Tricia and I plan on having an American Thanksgiving on that Saturday the 29th so that will be a lot of fun!

The Picture that is up top is a view that I have from one of the intakes, not too bad.

The one on the left here is of me so happy to see the snow! Behind me is a lot of water I am standing in the old river bed and we had to divert the river to construct the intake at the top of the river. Which we will eventually end up diverting back once the intake is finished being built.

Well that’s all I have time for now, until next time.

XOXO - Mol

New work Picture

I just wanted to post a new picture of me at work this was my first day on the job and me being the dork that I am had to make a comment on the soil horizon so they took my picture by it. Seriously though the "O" Horizon which is the organic matter is taller than me!

Just Your Average Commute to Work

This is a picture from taking off in Vancouver. This is the Goose that I took for about an hour up to the Toba Inlet.
So on the 30 km road up to "camp" there was a grizzley bear with its catch of the day a little seal.

So the first day on the job was pretty good, but really have not gotten into the job quite yet. I got a tour of one side of the project it is 60 km long, and tomorrow I will probably visit the other side and work in the office.

I will keep you guys updated.

The Road Trip

So technicaly I started on Friday from Lake Leelanau, MI and drove to Traverse to get my cast cut off. From there I drove to Lake Zurich, IL (Holly Revords's House) to celebrate Dona's Bachelorrette weekend in Chicago. It was a blast and I had a little too much fun.

After the weekend of fun I met my friend Jason Gamm in Milwaukee, WI for a little bite to eat, and moved on to The Twin Cities, MN to stay with Jess Johnson. I had a quick breakfast with Jess on Monday morning then drove all the way to Billings, MT. I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express because I had so many points with that hotel from my work before.

From Billings, MT I drove to Spokane, WA. I stopped there because I did not want to cross the Cascades at night. On Wednesday I only drove to Seattle, WA/ Mount Vernon, WA and stayed with a couple of Tech grads (Kate & Matt) I then left from Mount Vernon, WA to go to Vancouver, BC. Crossing the boarder was no big deal at all. I thought they would want to search my car or atleast look in it but they didn't. I did have to sit at the border for about 45 min to wait to get my work visa.

After getting into Vancouver I got to meat my boss at the main office and some other people around the office as well. I will be hanging out with Tricia this weekend, then I have my orientation on Monday morning and I will be meeting with my boss for lunch to talk about the job and what is expected of me. Tuesday morning I will fly out via float plane to my project. I will then be there for 20 days. I will try and update as much as possible when I am at camp.

If you want to see pictures from my road trip here is the link.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2057328&l=4c97a&id=6602306

The Career Move

I am moving to Vancouver, British Columbia on October 19th! I was offered a job that I could not refuse (the 2nd time) with the Kiewit Corporation. Don't fret, I will still be a US citizen, I won't give that up. :) I have a friend from Tech Tricia Curmi (Civil Eng.) who also works for the same company.

The project that I will be working on is a hydro project here is the link to where I will be living 20 days out of the month and flown in by float plane.

If interested...
This is the "Camp": http://www.plutonic.ca/i/pdf/transformations-issue-4.pdf
This is the Project: http://www.easttoba.ca/s/Home.asp
The Company: http://www.kiewit.com/