A truckers life.

Jeff and I now have a first hand account of what the life of a trucker is like. After driving 51 hours to and from the Northwest Territories, we learned what driving through the night and day and another night is all about.

My sisters husband owns a rock crushing company and was moving his equipment up north (my sister says its the North Pole!) for a job. Friday at around 7:00pm we got a phone call from my sister asking if we would be the pilot driver for a truck hauling a loader.

We packed up and went to pick up the pilot truck. After a 4 hour 'oops' we were back on track with the RIGHT truck. We met the trucker in Innisfail at 4am (who at that point had been driving for 36 hours) and started the pilot drive. After a few hours on the road we took a brake so the driver could get a few hours of sleep and from then on it was straight driving from 2pm saturday afternoon until midnight sunday night.

This is what our average speed was on the way up. The way home was, needless to say, much faster.

There he is, in the rear view mirror.

TREES!! It has been so long since i've seen trees! This drive was hours and hours of nothing but trees. I didnt know how much I missed them until I saw them again.

Visit my sisters blog here - http://malinsmayham.blogspot.com/2009/09/north-pole.html for more great pictures of what we saw and my very cute neice and nephew!

Cakes

Here are a few of the cakes that I have make in my cake decorating classes! I start the 3rd course on tuesday and get to learn more about fondant and tiered cakes.