Casing Break!

Finally Casing Break! What does that mean you ask? Well it means that I get about 24 hours off. That means I don't have to stay at the rig, usually I run back to Bismarck but this time Beth and the kids drove to Dickinson, ND and we got a room at the Comfort Inn. It was really great to spend the time with my family. The way the drilling has been going I'm out at work for about two weeks before I get this little break. After the break I am on the countdown. We are drilling 20,000' wells, 10,000 horizontally and we're knocking them out in about 28 days. So after I get back to work following my "Casing Break" I only have about 10 to 12 days left before I'm done and heading home for about a week, give or take a day.

This time the break was a little bit quicker than normal so I didn't get to spend as much time with Beth and the kids as I would have liked but it still recharged my batteries and I'm ready to finish this well up and go home.

The kids had such a good time in the hotel's pool and waterpark. Most of the hotels up here have at least a few waterslides for the kids and in the winter it's kinda fun to get a room just to play at the waterpark. Megan loved the Clam waterslide she was up and down and up and down all evening long. Grant surprised me, he loved the bigger waterslide. He would go down the slide, climb out of the water, less than 1.5' deep, go up the stairs and do it all over again. Megan didn't mind the bigger waterslide but the material her little swimsuit is made of must be a little slicker than Grants' because she flew down that thing. Beth and I had so much fun watching them go down the slides and splash around. It was so much fun spending time with them.

So that's the update for now, well there's one more thing.... We purchased a camper last days off. We'll pick it up in a few weeks when I'm done with this well and I'll get some pictures up. It's a 2008 model travel trailer, we got a heck of a deal as it was used about 5 times and turned back in. So check back in a few weeks for pics of our new camper. No other news to speak of besides SNOW in the immediate,( Thursday Night) future.

Thanks for stopping by.