Day 1

Ah, so day one is complete. After three phone calls yesterday to Diversified transport to figure out when and where to take the bus we finally had it figured out and had no trouble this morning.

We got to take a tour of some the lands of Syncrude at Mildred Lake, saw some the reclaimed land and the old drag lines they used for digging up the sands. They went out of commission just this year because when one went down they lost a quarter of their production. They now use heavy haulers and shoves... they're pretty big too but not quite AS big! Still I wouldn't want to get in the way of one of those heavy haulers, the wheels are twice the size of me and crushing a pickup truck feels like a little bump to them. We got to see the work at the north mine as well as a lot of the conveyors, buildings and pipelines. It was pretty neat all in all. Then I got taken to my post in payroll. There I was briefed on what went on back there, had lunch, did an emergency response quiz and some filing. Finally my day was over, I was nearly falling asleep after lunch and had to resort to coffee!! Either way, it worked!

We'll see how it goes tomorrow when we get a little more into things. So far, so good!