Monday - September 26, 2011

We got up at 4:15 to say good bye to Alex who leaves for work at around 4:45. Then we went back to bed and got up again at 6:15 to say good bye to Jill who leaves for work at around 6:45. Buses take both of them to the respective sites.

We left around 10 after a phone call that I had at 8. Yesterday, on our way back from picking up the firewood, we noticed smoke coming from across the forest. Well, it was a forest fire and they closed the main highway to and from Fort McMurray - Highway 63. So we travelled down Highway 881, which was a longer route back to Edmonton, but more scenic. In fact it was the way I originally intended to travel back to Edmonton. There certainly was a lot less truck traffic on 881.

We arrived in Edmonton around 4 stayed at the St Albert Hotel on the northwest side of Edmonton. Went to dinner at a very good Italian restaurant.