Long two days….. (121/365)

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May 1, 2015 – That’s how I felt too…..

Two days of helicopter safety training took a toll on us, we were all pretty worn out by the end of the today.

So here’s a funny story about how small the world is.

That’s Carol. She wasn’t at the dunk cage training, she joined us yesterday afternoon, arriving in Hope on a Greyhound bus, for the latter day and a half of training. She is a geologist working for the Canadian Geological Survey and is a retired Emeritus scientist responsible for much of the geological mapping of major parts of northern BC.

Our class was made up of two of us from DFO, five from the Geological Survey, and one paramedic.

Carol and I were chatting over lunch yesterday and she asked where I came in from.

I said I lived in North Vancouver.

She said she did too.

She asked whereabouts in North Van.

I said Edgemont.

She said that’s where she lived too!

(Of 2.3 million people in Metro Vancouver…the chances of two people, from different departments of the Federal Government, living in the same neighbourhood, taking the same helicopter safety class almost 200km from home, seemed low.)

She asked where in Edgemont.

I said ON Edgemont Boulevard.

She said “Me too!”

She lives across the street and down about four driveways…..we live about 200 metres apart.

How weird is THAT!

Clearly I gave her a ride home without it being even a minor inconvenience. And how cool to know a new neighbour and already have plans to share books and recipes and get together for wine and dinner.

This helicopter safety training course had some surprising outcomes.

Pretty cool….don’t you think?

Here are a couple of videos of the things we were doing today….