last week at our meeting on Monday Mr. James came in and informed me that i was going to spend my week in Alberta. the school had found some cheap green houses that needed to be disassembled and brought back to the school. so six of us piled into the pickup truck and two others followed in a semi truck. it took us 18 hours to drive there on Tuesday! we were in "north" Alberta in a place called High Prairie. but when you look on a map it is only half way up the Provence.

after some haggling over the price the next morning we finally settled on a price and ended up getting 9 green houses 200 feet long by 20 feet wide. they had been set up the spring before but had been left up over the winter so some of them were bent up by the wind and snow. it took two of us 7 hours just to clean up the plastic into piles.

we finally finished the day with 13 hours under our belts. we slept very well that night :) the next day we started to transfer the pipes with the pickup to semi. the semi couldn't get across the train tracks so we backed up to the tracks and put the gate down on the trailer and carried everything across. it took us all day to get everything carried over. after a full 14 hours we finally finished up and headed back to bed before another 13 hour drive back to the school the next morning.

here is what i think of Alberta: Jasper National Park was amazing! i was very happy to be able to drive though. the rest of Alberta..... well, i didnt like it so much. it was very flat. i am sure there are some pretty places but i didnt see any. were we were it was crazy flat and there were tons of mosquitoes. no joke, part of the instructions of how to find the green houses included "and after the big bend in the road..." it was nuts. i was very thankful to make it back to BC. now, northern BC was wonderful. i hope some day to live in a place like that. this is God's country.