Dawson Creek, BC.

Today we drove 591 km from the University of Alberta to the Super 8 at Mile 0 of the Alaskan Highway in Dawson Creek. It's 10:00 pm here, but it feels like midnight to all of us and we're really tired.

This morning Dylan, Lindsey, and I had to take hour long driving tests. We all passed. In between the tests we loaded up the truck with a huge couch and all of our gear. We left town around 1:00 pm. Also traveling with us are the spring crew leader, Devan, and another field tech, Kristen. We stopped in Valleyview, Alberta for gas, Grande Prairie, Alberta for dinner at a grocery store, and then decided to call it a day here in Dawson Creek.

Tomorrow we will be back on the road at 8:00 am after a complimentary continental breakfast and reloading all of our gear into the truck.

Today I also received a note from the Urban Cozy Project at Winterlude. They have loaded all of the pictures up. You can see pictures of both mine and Bronwen's contributed tree cozies along with a lot of other interesting pieces on Flickr.

I have a bunch of other neat photos from my week in Ottawa, including pictures I took when Mom, Dad, and I visited my cozy at Jacques-Cartier Park. Hopefully I'll have a chance to post them in the next little while. When we went to find my cozy we went inside an historical building at the park and found the Spins and Needles crew. That was cool. They all liked my cozy a lot :).

That's all I've got for now. Goodnight.

Gold in downtown Edmonton!

My flight landed in Edmonton at 12:10 pm local time. I met Dylan and Lindsey at the designated spot beside the Tim Hortons in Arrivals. Our ride was supposed to pick us up at 12:30. Plenty of time to head downtown to catch the puck drop at 1:30. Unfortunately, no one showed up. When we realized that no one was coming we hopped on a shuttle and headed to the hostel. Upon arriving the Aussie girl behind the desk notified us that, "we were up 1-0" and followed that up with ".....o, you guys are Canadian, right?" Uh, yeah. We dropped off our tons of gear (I thought I had a lot of stuff, but I had actually packed the smallest amount). And ran over to O'Byrnes on Whyte Avenue. There was a perfect booth waiting for us and we had dinner at 3:00, drank some beers and watched that crazy game play out.

And it isn't even 6:00 yet. I still have to go out for dinner, meet the rest of the crew, and I'm exhausted. This must be jet lag. I've been playing that card since last December though, so I don't even know anymore.

P.S. Do you see the tiny Team Canada symbols at the centre of the new symbol?