Go Canada Go!

I am sitting here in shorts and a t-shirt watching the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremonies. I am wearing my Lake Louise Winterstart belt buckle in honor of my ski buddies working hard getting ready for the alpine events at Whistler. This crew is.... part of a group of 1200 volunteers at Whistler. They would be my Alpine peeps.

From here, I bought a keg of beer for the Alpine volunteers that will get served up at the Weasel House - the volunteer hangout in Whistler.

I have also hung up a Canadian flag on the balcony. The flag was one that we flew in Argentina at one of our company's facilities. I expect to fly this same flag over our operations here in Trinidad.

And yes, I am having a beer, eh!

Go Canada Go!

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Intersection Art

I was running errands this morning.

At this one intersection when I stopped for the light, there was a barefoot man with a sack over his shoulder and he was carrying what looked like a book.

He tapped on my window and then started drawing on the pad. I mildly protested (the Canadian way) but he continued.

In the time for the light to turn green he had completed this..... Despite the fact he gave me a much better chin than I actually have, it wasnt bad.

He appreciated what I paid him and I appreciated the art.

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We are open for business!

While we have been doing work in Trinidad for about a year - we have finally put out our shingle. We opened our office in Marabella this month.
Meet my peeps. Staff meetings are pretty easy in these early days. We do have some locals..... who are trying to get on full time. We had several power outages in the first couple of weeks and when we did, we opened the windows to get a bit of a cross breeze. The breeze brought in a couple of these guys. I didnt hire them.

There was some early confusion about which way we wanted the parkings spots to go... but I do have more reserved parking spots than staff.

We have plans to grow so having a parking lot this size is a good thing. This is a country where parking is at a premium. B.

Choppers and moving snow

Ahhh....this brought back memories.
As I was preparing for a videoconference with Calgary this morning, I was reading the Guardian, the source of all interesting local Trinidadian and international news....and noticed this picture.

As Vancouver prepares for the Olympics, mild weather meant they need to use a helicopter to move snow ONTO the hill at Cypress.


There was a time when as Chief of Race, I requested a helicopter to REMOVE snow from the hill at Lake Louise several years ago. We didnt use a sling like the crew in Vancouver, we just blasted the snow out of the trees with the prop wash. There is more to the story (but then you had to be there).

Those were the days.

Regards,
Chopper

More connections to ARG

Nice to see another Trinidad & Argentina have other connections. Healthy connections. This 9 year old heads to Argentina for life saving surgery.

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Fast Noise

We had a noisy Saturday last week. There was a Go Fast boat race. There werent a lot of them but they were loud. Three folks up front and three big engines in the back.
They blasted around a course set just off the point in front of the apartment. They werent the big cigarette boats but they could sure scoot,

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The conventional use of the term...

....finger lickin' good.

KFC is the most popular franchise on the island of Trinidad. They are everywhere.

We were talking to someone who said the KFC here was the best in the world because here they use ALL 11 herbs and spices!

We caved one night and in a moment of weakness brought some home.This will be the only evidence that we ever had or will ever have KFC in the apartment.

If you ask Mimi, she will deny we ever had it.

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