Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Three Weeks Later Report #2

The second big thing to report is that we have moved into our new house! With much appreciated help from our family and a few friends, all our belongings and furniture were carefully loaded onto a big greenhouse truck on one of the hottest, stickiest days of the summer. We caravan-ed it down to St Catharines with the heater stuck on full blast, unloaded everything into the house, and started organizing and settling in. Now, two weeks later, there are still a few boxes scattered here and there that haven't been unpacked, but on the whole this little house has been transformed into our first real home, and quite a cozy little one at that. We are learning new things everyday about our new surroundings: the random one-way streets, the convenience of close-by shopping centres, the cozy feeling of clock bells every hour, the sirens and trains of the city. We have yet to capitalize on the convenience of weekly garbage pickups, receive our first bills, or discover how the local library works, but we look forward to the many new discoveries which await us.
Yay! Our new keys!
Crossing the threshhold!!
Danielle and Mike building our new BBQ
All our earthly possessions are in that truck!
Eating our first BBQ with family

2 comments:

Rachel said...

hey rach!! how are you guys doing out there? Can you e-mail with your phone number some time? I just got home from vacation, and am happy to see that moving and settling in has gone so well! I'd love to chat with you sometime soon and get caught up all the way!

ADasa said...

Looks good! Love the threshhold picture! D