Do we need a road map?


This is the start of our little road trip to Wainwright, Alberta. (http://www.town.wainwright.ab.ca/index.html ) We decided to go away for the day like we used to a long time ago. Okay not so long ago but somedays it seems that way. Long before we moved to Cold Lake we would take small day trips just to get away for a bit. It had been a long time since we have done this so yesterday we decided to just up and go with Rocco. In the above photo is a weigh scale just west of Bonnyville ( http://www.town.bonnyville.ab.ca/ ) Just because we can we stop by the weigh scale to see how much the car weighs and in this case it is about 1250kgs

We went to Wainwright to visit Darla Lachance. I met her at the store reno in St. Albert this past 3 months. It was somewhere we have NEVER been before or even knew where it was or even really how to get there. Hence the title of the blog. I guess it is to be about 2 hours or so to get there but as usual it has taken us way longer.

We stopped to take pictures with our new camera ( sony cybershot-dscw80) It is a great new little camera that we have been having fun playing with these days. We stopped at Elkpoint ( http://www.shop-alberta.com/elk-point.htm) They have a huge wooden statue that we took pics at but at this moment I am having issues with the site to get them posted here.

The scenery from Cold Lake to Wainwright was beautiful. Once I get the photo up on the blog site you'll see what I mean. Stopped in Vermilion (http://www.town.vermilion.ab.ca/) as we headed south. Once in Wainwright we toured the town and in all truth be told we quite surprized. They have a cool town clock in the middle of the street and at the end of the main street is a train station. We went out to the base there to see it. For a little Army base it was nice. The new PMQs are awesome too bad they are not building them here too.

All in all the trip was fun. Looking forward to going on more day trips to other places in Alberta.

New News:

Well things have changed here in the last little while. I am now back in Cold Lake for good. Which is good news for my boys. I am though on the night shift at Walmart. When I got back I thought that I was heading to Lloyd to help them. There was as change of plans higher up the food chain to what was to happen.

I have been given a promotion at work to "Support Manager".This job is like assistant manager but with out the big responsiblities and bs. This means that I have to do some night shift for the next few months but if that is what I have to do to move up in the world then so be it. It also means that I won't be heading back to St.Albert but hey I am going places.

The Pink Ladies of St Albert Walmart:

Well things happen that are strange and funny at this store reno. All the while the hard work is being done we still have time to kick back and have fun too. Welcome to the pink ladies club of the St Albert Walmart.

Below is the start of the Pink Ladies. Right to left is the following: Diva Dar, Kickin Kim, Cool Chris and Me. This all started with a late night before shift shoping trip to walmart. The three of us girls ended up with the same shirts. Chris our assistant manager of the Reno team wanted to know where his shirt was too. Not thinking that he`d actually wear it we bought him one too. He did wear it all night long.


Cool Chris in his Pink Lady shirt
This is Diva Dar doing her diva pose

I am going to miss everyone there

These are a few more new friends:

Kathy from Wainwright

Nicole from Wainwirght
Nancy from Wainwright
Lisa from Wainwright

Sheila Sharron and Darla

Stacey from St. Albert
Randy is a contrator from St. Albert
Bush from Wainwright

One more Week :

Well one more week done here. Last weekend I stayed here for the weekend. The girls ( from work) and myself went to bingo. Michelle and I were the only ones there to start. We decided to share our possible winnings. I won for the 2nd time ever playing here in Alberta. I won on an earlybird game of $282. Not bad for a win. We split Michelle then on $50 and yet another $244. It was a good night for all of us. I guess at the end of the night we went to the VLTs since that is what they do if they win at bingo. So off we went. I put $20 in the machine of the money that I won. In the end I took out another $260 So I went home with $510.

I save the money for when Robbie can down for a doc's appointment on Thursday. I spent a few pennies on him for treats that he has wanted for sometime now. I got him memory for the home computer, a book on how to write songs for dummies, chocolate, wendy's meals and much more.

I went home for the weekend due to the fact that I had no room here in Edmonton for the weekend. It was good to be there. I think that I was due for a trip hometo relax and get away from here. I am getting tired of living in a hotel and being so far from home. While I was home I went in to the store.

The store here in Edmonton is so pleased with our work that they are trying to get us to stay till the end of the project. So they have been calling all our stores to find out if we all can stay. While at home Brad talked to me and let me know that on the 25 th of May that we will be done here in Ed. But only to find out that we are heading out to Llyodminister to work there for a few months. then possibly back here for a few months.

NEW FRIENDS FROM ST. ALBERT:

These are finall pictures of some of my new friends that i have met in St. Albert at the Wallymart store.

Kim from Wainwright

Erlise from St. Al
Ryan from North Battleford
April from Yorkton
Darla and Catlin from Wainwright
Daniel from Wainwright

Michelle from St. Al
Debra and Dave f rom St. Al
Leo and Martin (managers) from St Al (AKA larry & Mo)
Robin (manager) from St.Al (AKA Curly no we didn't miss him)
Stephanie from St Al

These are a few of the fine people we have been spending our Reno project so far. It has been a good trip here for far this past 11 weeks

More pics to come later

Weekend in Edmonton:

Well since Robbie's ride decided that he could only take my boys to Edmonton if Rocco rode in the bed of the truck. Robbie decided to stay home this past weekend. I ended up calling his mom and Barb to let them know that we were not coming for a visit. It disappointed them all but not much you can do though.
So in the end he surprized me still by showing up here late friday night here in Edmonton. It was too late to go to Calgary so we stayed here for the weekend. My friend Debra said that anytime we needed a babysitter for Rocco her kids would be glad to have him. Drew her oldest boy took him for the weekend. From what she says they snuggled on the couch for the weeked. Not much has changed from except for the body he snuggles with.
I took Robbie to Montanna cookhouse for supper had him very very scared that he'd be wearing the bulls helmet for his birthday. hehehe!! Then on saturday we stopped at Laptop Depot and he bought me a 2Gb ipod nano for his birthday. Not too bad eh. It all works in the end because I took him to Powerama 2007 (new & classic car show) it was a very very very long show walking around looking at CARS! He took lots of pics so once he gets the developed I'll post a few for you all to see. After we went to his favorite restaurant WENDY'S.
Last night we went to Bingo too with a couple girls that I have met since I have been here in St Albert. We didn' t win but they did though It was a good time had by all.
This morning we went downstairs for brunch which is always good then went out to Morrinville to pick up Rocco. Now my boys are on the highway if not first in the Wendy's drivethru getting his last fix before hitting the highway back to Cold Lake. Robbie I hope that you had a great weekend and that your birthday weekend here was okay. Sorry that we didn't make to to Calgary next time I promise!!!

See you all later (2 more weeks before I get home again)!!!

Happy Birthday Robbie:

This past weekend I went home to Cold Lake yet again. This next 3 weeks will be long though as now I am not allowed to go home till then end of April. This is only due to the fact the this comming weekend my boys are coming here to Edmonton so that I can take them to Calgary/High River for the weekend. Walmart will not pay for that trip since it is on the weekend that I was to go home. I decided to go a week earlier. Anyway, Next week ( of the 26th ) is Robbies 46th birthday. Last year I surprized him by having a weekend in Edmonton with his Mom who's birthday just happens to be the 27th. This year since I am here we are heading down south for the weekend instead. A good meal and an afternoon of BINGO with Barb is just what the birthday boy wants this year.

This weekend I was at home and got some great sleep by sleeping in my own bed for a change was good. I just got back to St. Albert monday afternoon when Robbie called me to get me to make an appointment for the car to be fixed. I called and they had to get an estimate for it first before booking it in. I ended calling him back to have him drive down here that night. I got one more day with him. We got the estimate it was way better than what we thought that it would be though. For someone who stabbed my car with a screwdriver it is only going to cost about 1100 bucks to fix a hole that is as small as a nickel.

I guess Robbie that your going to have a very short week at work this week. a ay and a half eh. Emjoy. See you guys again on friday afternoon


talk to you all soon

More Easter:

Wel here are a couple of photos that are from the long weekend. Muffin and my parents came up for the weekend. It is hard to believe that it has been a year since they have been in Cold Lake. In between watching movies, drawing pictures, shopping and playing "guitar heros" on the PS2. She is better at the game than Uncle Robbie but at least he tries.

here she is drawing a picture of "Howie"


and at least the snow was gone enough for her to play outside skipping rope.


talk to you all soon

Happy Easter!!!

Happy Easter everyone I hope that you all have a great long weekend. I am at home yet again. Hard to believe that yet another 2 weeks have passed by this fast. This long weekend my mom, dad and muffin are coming up here for a short visit. I was sad to hear that muffin is a bit under the weather though. It is hard to believe that a year has gone by since they have last been here to Cold Lake for a visit.

I am writing this blog on my new Dell ( dell.ca ) laptop. I even bought a Montreal Canadiens skin for it. Dad this laptop had better stay here and yours had better go home with you. I am looking forward to taking this back to Edmonton with me. At lest I will be able to chat and get emails with it. The hotel has free internet services for me when I get back. I am hoping that Robbie will let me out of he house with it though. Last night we got it all hooked up to the internet . He spent a few LONG hours on it having fun.

Well I went to talk with the new store manager her in Cold Lake (Walmart) To find out how long I will be staying in Edmonton. It sounds like I will be there till at least the end of May. He wants me to come back to the store for inventory and then possibly back to Edmonton. When asked where I want to go with the company I told him assistant manager. He told me that he would like me to go to school in Calgary for a bit. Told him that was good with me. So in the next year or so we shall see how things are going there.

Well since I have bored you all to death I'll stop for now. I will try and get photo's on here for the next one. I need to download the program and get my camera. Which this dumb girl left at the hotel this weekend....really smart eh

Ciao for now have a great long weekend