Our adventure is finished

Our year in Newfoundland is finished. And we are starting a new adventure in Ottawa now. It probably won't be as exciting as a new city in a new province, but we will have adventures with 2 kids in school, renovating / decorating our new house, a new job, little trips, and lots of little fun. :)

I would like to thank all my readers for joining us in our adventure this past year. I don't know who all is reading it, but I hope I have provided some entertainment. ;)

And in starting a new adventure, a new blog is being started, and you are more than welcome to join me there, and continue to read about Kat, Ellie, and Dany, and all of their adventures.

So please update your links to the following link : No Volume Control to join the fun over there.

Hello Ottawa!!

We landed safe and sound yesterday afternoon. The flight was pretty much uneventful (which is the way we like it). There was just a little issue at the beginning of the second flight when Dani wanted nothing to do with anything, and wanted everything that she couldn't have which lead to crying, and screaming, and tantrums. But shortly after we took off she fell right to sleep, and slept all the way until just before we landed, so it ended up very good. Kat and Ellie did very well on the flights, watching their tv, and bugging daddy with a million and one questions.

After we landed, we got our van, and headed out to Limoges. To say we are all impressed and amazed is an understatement. Our house is BEAUTIFUL!

Now for a million pictures from Friday's visit. There are obviously still a few things to do but they are mainly on the outside of the house, so it doesn't really affect move in date or anything like that - which is especially good since we are getting our keys on Tuesday rather than Friday!!! :)

Front of the house

House Number & close up of the bricks

Front door and lights

Livingroom

Foyer

Diningroom

Diningroom - Hallway and Kitchen in view

Kitchen

Close up of the cupboards and counter

Microwave shelf (also you can see the colour of the walls with the colour of the cabinets)

Powder room on main floor

Stairs going upstairs

Master Bedroom

Master Bathroom (Shower and Soaker tub)

Master Bathroom - Vanity

Girls' Bathroom - Vanity

Girls' Bathroom - Corner Tub

Girls' Bathroom - Shower

Laundry "room" (in the Girls' Bathroom)

Big Bedroom

Medium Bedroom (claimed by Ellie)

Smallest Bedroom

Light in Foyer

Diningroom Light

Looking down to the garage door

Foyer Tiles / Hardwood floor

Unfinished Basement

Good Bye Newfoundland!

We had a great time in St. John's and the rest of Newfoundland. It's a beautiful island, and I'm so happy that we had this past year to enjoy it. The girls will have wonderful memories of our adventure. I can see a visit in our future to come back and visit things that we didn't have time for, but even if we missed some, we couldn't have asked for a better trip. We got to enjoy an almost record breaking winter, a very wet spring, an almost hot summer (for a few weeks at least). We got to visit with ducks, and ducklings on a regular basis - and watch the ducklings grow from just eggs to full grown ducks. Kat finished Kindergarten and made a ton of friends at school. Kat and Ellie made wonderful friends on our street. We got to experience the friendliness and hospitality of Newfoundland - Steph will have to re-learn how to drive aggressively to fit in with Ottawa drivers. LOL

Over the past 36 hours our life has been moved from a house to a truck with just a few essential belongings with us. More than 400 items were put on the truck. Plus the car on another truck. I think it went very smoothly - no major issues, everyone pretty organized (even me in my scatterbrain moments). Once again, we seem to have lucked out with the truck. Predicted arrival date is the earliest date they said - well actually earlier than the earliest predicted date. We are suppose to get the keys to our new house on Friday the 29th in the afternoon. The driver says that he could be in Ottawa on Wednesday - ready to unpack on Thursday. Doubt that will happen, but hopefully we can get our keys on Thursday, so they can unpack on Friday. It's pretty amazing.. We were thinking the truck would arrive on the Friday, and unpacking on the Saturday, or even later. We are booked at the Albert at Bay until i believe the 3rd of September, but looks like we definitely won't need it that long. Hopefully our car follows suit and comes really quick as well.. It would be nice to find *normal* as quick as possible.

And as normal for this blog; PICTURES :)

After Day 2 of packing. Everything in the house is packed, almost everything is taken apart.

Dani's Room

Kitchen

Den

Livingroom

Looking up to the main from the front door

Starting Day 3. Very late night the night before... very early morning. Yet, everyone was ready to go from the hotel and ready to watch the loaders do their job.

Dani and Ellie "Supervising" from the back deck

Truck is here and ready to load..

Bye Truck!!!

Bye Car!!!

One last walk to visit the ducks.. Bye Ducks!!

And now, we hang out in the hotel until tomorrow morning.. Kat, Ellie and Daddy enjoyed some time in the pool while Dani napped..

The Fish!! Went down the 80 ft slide 4 times!! Was "swimming" by herself in the deep end, was jumping from the edge of the pool.. Had a blast..

The land lover. LOL Can't see a career of being a life guard in her future. ;)

We have had supper (very yummy pizza), and are trying to pour a bath (where's the hot water?!?!), and then heading to bed. Another fairly early morning tomorrow with having to be at the airport by 9am, so leaving here by 830ish.

I would like to introduce you to "the gang" of Bellevue Cres.

Top (from left to right) : Riley, Emma, and Kate.
Bottom (from left to right) : Emma, Kat, Luke, Keira, Ellie and Sarah.

That's the main gang.. Missing is Riley and Keira's little sister Hannah, and of course Dani. There were four more kids on the street (Kate and Luke's neighbour James and Jacob, but they didn't play much with the gang; Gabe - Kat's bus friend and his sister Stephanie, but they were gone for a good portion of the summer).

Kat and Ellie will miss them all quite a bit. We have all of their "snail mail" addresses, as well as a few email addresses. And i'm sure we will try to keep in touch with them as penpals.

Last fun family outting

On Monday, since the day was beautiful, and there was a local attraction that we had yet to visit. So we made a quick decision, packed a picnic lunch, and headed to Bowring Park. It's only about a 5 minute drive from our place, and it's a beautiful park. Green grass everywhere with lots of trees and flowers. A cute little duck pond in the middle. A big kids' park right next to the pond and then an outdoor swimming pool next to that. Lots of trails surrounding the park as well.. We could have stayed there all day with plenty of things to do.. But on our tight timetable, we enjoyed our picnic lunch near the duck pond, and then played in the play park for a while before feeding the ducks and heading out of there. It was short but a lot of fun.








On the way home from visiting Steph's co-workers (i guess ex-co-workers), we made a short stop at Signal Hill.. Last time there for a while.

tick tock..

5 days until Steph's last day of work..
8 days until our kitties fly to Ottawa..
9 days until the packers get here..
10 days until we move into the hotel...
11 days until the car gets picked up and the truck full of our stuff leaves..
12 days until we are on the plane to Ottawa..

YIKES!!

And 16 days until Kat starts Grade 1, and Ellie starts Kindergarten.
And 19 days until we get the keys to our brand new house! :)

10 years together

10 years ago today, Steph and I went on our first date together. Not only was it our first date, but it was our first time meeting face to face after "meeting" online 8 days earlier. We went to dinner and a movie (Titanic) that night and well the rest is history... :)

Memento from that night

No celebrating from us though. Steph leaves late this afternoon to go to Halifax for his intensive and exam for his current Master's course. He will be coming back late Monday night.