Presenting Mr. and Mrs. Quinn

Sept 18, 2005. A sunny fall afternoon in Calgary. A beautiful outdoor patio. Surrounded by our closest friends and family. Desiree and Ryan were married in a simple ceremony followed by a pretty fun party if I do say so myself!

Thank to everyone who was there and to those who couldn't make it - we appreciate your thoughts and messages of congratulations.

I wanted to share the photos - because no one cares about my rambling, they just want to see the beautiful bride (and she was!) so here she is... oops, I just realized that I'm not smarter than the computer, damn.

Here is the link to the photos and I will come back and put the actuals in here once I figure out how to do that! If you click below, it will take you to Kodak's web page and they have all 250 photos that our photgrapher, Brad Heniger took. You will have to create an account, but then you can order prints if you would like them.

KodakShare

enjoy - RQ

Rig Pig?

More great questions from Mrs. Richie:



Have you been out to the oil rigs yet?  Not yet (I am actually in Frankfurt at the moment

- on my way back to Canada) The issue that I am having with going to the rigs is two fold,

the second will get answered below... but firstly, you require a full blown work permit to

travel offshore and I only just received mine - it is a 1 month process usually.



How do you get there? by helicopter?  Yes, but it is even more complicated than that.  We

have to fly from Lagos to Port Harcourt where we have an Oil Terminal called QIT.  From

QIT, you fly by helicopter to the rig. It takes 1 day, minimum, to get from Lagos to QIT

to the rig, so that is the other reason that I haven´t gone out yet... not enough time.



Have you ever been on an ocean oil rig before? No - and they are huge... I think it will be

neat for the first time.



How far from shore is it?  Are there many of them?  There are 2 differentcategoriess of rigs

- Jack ups and Floaters.  The jack ups work in less than 300´ of water while the floaters do

every thing else.  Currently we have 3 Floaters working and 4 jack ups.  I work on the jack

up rigs.  They are a couple miles offshore... give or take.



How big are they? How many people work on them?  They are huge - think of a football field on

top and several stories deep. There will be about 100 ppl between cooks and cleaners to
maintainance staff and engineers working on each rig.  More for the floaters.


Will you work on just one or travel around to many of them? I am currently responsible for 1

rig... and typically I would try to visit that rig every couple months for a week or more.

Day to day, I am working in the office in Lagos.



Well - I gotta run and catch my plane to Canada!  See you all soon!



RQ

1 Week to Go!

Just 1 week to go before I get to fly back to Calgary! And only 2 weeks until we get married!!

Not much new to report in Lagos... I now have a computer at work, a phone, a car and a driver! The driver's name is Rotimi and he is a nice, quiet guy... too bad he doesn't know where anything is!

For about 30,000 Naira ($200USD) per month, he will drive Desiree and I where ever we want to go - how decadent! It really is a requirement here - the traffic is so bad and there is a risk of someone stealing the mirrors and door handles off your car if there isn't someone watching it! It rained on Thursday and there was 1 foot of water on most of the roads - so all the pot holes that had been fixed are now huge again, bummer.

On the phone issue - there is a phone number in Dallas - (713) 431-8500 ext 1293 - which connects to my desk in Lagos, so you don't have to call Africa. Once we get moved into our flat, we'll have an extension at the house also... so make sure you have unlimited (or cheap) long distance to the USA

I added some photos from the Yacht Club into that post... and unfortunately, I really haven't taken any other good photos - so I'll start now! But, here is an interesting photo taken from the airplane as I was flying over the Sahara Desert...