| Friday, September 3, 2004 A rather interesting story. Mark and Ruth were going to come up with their rental van to visit me and the surrounding area today. Well, they read the fine print of the contract, saying they can't drive in Alberta! So that left me w/ the option to go visit them in BC. And that's what I did. I was going to leave at around 12:00, but Trevor said that the road would be it's worst - long weekend and all. So I left at around 9:00 am. Going to Revelstoke for a couple days / nights. It was a nice drive,
able to stop and see things because there was no time rush. Here's
some photos of the trip: I arrived in Revelstoke before Mark and Ruth did, so I got my bike and rode all over town. Then I checked to see if they showed up yet. No - well, I thought I'd drive to the top of Mt. Revelstoke. Rode my bike the last 300 ft (see below). Came home and found I missed the Austins by about 15 min. It was good to see them again. Saturday, September 4, 2004 I got up and went to McDonalds. Everyone else got up a little later, and tried to eat the supplied 'breakfast' at the hotel. Oh, well. The first stop for the day was the Revelstoke Dam Tour. We drove
to catch the free tour of the power generating Revelstoke Dam. Good
tour - would recommend it if you get the chance. Then we went to the Railroad Museum. $6.00 per person, $3.00 for
kids. Another 'it's worth it' stop for the day. And then we drove to the top of Mt. Revelstoke. It did look like it was clearing up a little, and so we thought we would give it a try. We could drive most of the way, but the last 300 ft. you had to either hike or take the shuttle bus. We hiked. Home for pizza, and then a quick slide show of the Alaskan trip. Sunday, September 5, 2004 The decision was made: Drive both vehicles to Field - just West
of the BC / Alberta border, pile in my truck, and go to Banff. It
turned out to be a great decision - it's only a couple extra hours
to do that for me (cause I'd have to drive back to BC and drop the
folks off.) I'll just let you thumb through the pictures - there's
some discriptions there for you in there. After the fact was discovered that there was no room to eat in Field, we parted ways. I got home at about 10:45 or so that evening. Monday, September 6, 2004 - Labor Day Took the time to get some things organized w/ my office. I then spent a little time learning how to add captions to video / audio files w/ RealPlayer. I had it working, but then moved it to another server, and not it's not! Go figure. Learning curve is in place. Friday, September 10, 2004 Mailed the Audio Master to Hong Kong again - for the AudioBook that goes w/ The Lamb. Sure hope it makes it there this time. Haircut 12:30 Saturday, September 11, 2004 Worked in the office for most of the day, except for a couple hours when I helped Trevor finish up some bins. Sunday, September 12, 2004 Ran sound for the morning service- teaching Rod the ropes to hopefully get him on his own. After the pancake lunch, I headed up to Wetaskiwin to help Friesen put an electric sub-panel out by the grain bins. We hopped to Home Despot in Edmonton and picked some things up. Monday, September 13, 2004 He rented a Ditch-Witch, and dug the trench for the 4/0 cable. Pretty big stuff. I made a little shelter for the electrical panel and hooked that up. At the end of the day it was finished and working, so I came home - leaving at about 11:00 or so. Tuesday, September 14, 2004 Still on Closed Captioning - if you haven't heard, it's a lot of re-work. Just trying to get things done so that it's ready to caption on the web, as well as translate to other laguages. (It's pretty involved, so I won't go into it here now.) Tuesday, September 26, 2004 John called and asked if I had any pictures of a wagon wheel. Since
I didin't, I drove over to Gordon Kary's place because I knew he
had a wagon out in front of his house. As I shot pictures, he was
telling me that his dad carried all his worldly posessions on this
wagon to his new home. It was interesting getting the history while
I shot photos. Here's a few for ya. Thursday, September 28, 2004 Andrew and I drove down to Idaho, for our annual Bible Camp. We had a good trip- driving through Radium. It was a delayed trip, cause Andrew pulled in the night before at 4:20am - after finishing up a boiler job and driving 3 hours home. So I let him sleep, and we left at about 10:30 or so, arriving at the camp at about 7:00 p.m. Friday - Sunday, September 29-31, 2004 GoodSeed Bible Camp, 2004. I didn't take too many photos this year - though I did try out a Canon in the dark.
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