Well it finally happened, Friday 3rd July all our furniture and treasured belongings were tightly packed onto a 20ft container bound for Canada!! The removals company came on the Thursday and started to pack all we were taking, we were left sleeping on camping mats for the night until they put the last few items away the following day. It was the first time we had ever used a company to move us and we have moved many times.... but never a move as big as this.
After all was gone we went to stay with my mum for about 10 days, this would give us time to meet with friends and say our final farewells and relax a little after all the stressing, but as you know things never really go to plan! With just 6 days to go, thoughts continuously going round in my head.... 'Driving Licences', I didn't remember seeing them with all the other paperwork I had to keep aside to take with us, so after a frantic search we resorted to ordering replacements online, at the end of our order it said 'please allow 10 working days for delivery'. We didn't have ten days so the next morning we called DVLA and explained the situation. They arrived to us on the Friday, two days later. So that was one hiccup over, relax now? No! 'Homer' the cat decides to come in from being out over night with a bad limp. It wouldn't usually have bothered me for the first day or so but as we were due to fly I needed an emergency appointment with the vet and as you probably guessed he came out the basket at the vets walking fine! But an antibiotic and painkiller injection was given just in case, but was fit to fly! Now all we had left was our 'see you later' farewells. I don't like goodbye as to me it is almost like you will never see them again so to me it is always 'see you later' no matter where you might be going. Which is always hard to do, knowing you are leaving behind family and friends.
MONDAY 13TH JULY was finally here we were all packed and ready to leave for Gatwick airport. My mum and step dad Paul took us in a mini-bus, which wasn't going to be an easy day..... Lots of tears later we were boarding the plane with a great journey and a new life ahead of us.
When we arrived at Ottawa airport about 6.30 pm (local time) we were sent to the immigration office where we had to answer a few questions pass over our immigration paperwork and within 15 minutes we were welcomed into Canada and sent on our way through to customs to clear our 'goods to follow' and collect the two cats which to my surprise were silent, but all was OK, then it was on to Stu and Ruth's for a few nights. We were welcomed with Champagne and supper and the boys settled right in and went off playing with Adam and Oliver, while the cats found a hiding place in the garage!
A NEW LIFE is beginning but again not without some stress, although we have spent several holidays over in Canada nothing can ever prepare you for a life changing move. Our second day here and we were in our own rented accommodation and sleeping again on camping mats until the furniture arrives..... Our first week was hectic driving back and forth to town for bits and pieces. We wanted to buy a car as soon as we could so we were looking for this also. We didn't want to have to pay for a rental car too long. Luckily we were able to get some Internet connection so we could hook up with the necessities, home phone, hydro, bank accounts etc., and places to check out. The boys were very patient being dragged back and forth but they did get to check out the local sprinkler park which kept them cool :) which they take themselves off to now on a regular basis.
Our furniture arrived last week so we can now live in some comfort, although we have left a lot of it still packed as I really didn't want to unpack just to pack again when we eventually move to our own place.
The wildlife is great lots of different birds, a resident Marmot in the garden along with foxes, squirrels raccoons and skunks! Craig likes to put food out for them all which keeps them coming back for more.
I hope to be back in the next few days with some pictures :)
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Still no pictures :)
ReplyDeleteI see you changed your titles and I like the new header.....how come yours fits what size is it ??
A day to myself today so hoping to get pictures posted later!!
ReplyDeleteThe size is always 648 pixels wide by what ever depth you want, I create in photo shop first as a pdf (just so I can makes adjustments!!) then save as jpeg and alter the image size to suit..... Hope this helps!!