We’ve been silent, but only because we’ve been busy with the house! We’ve got someone in there now for patching up and painting the ceilings and walls (I will paint the kitchen cabinets and smaller stuff). Boyd turned out to be an awesome guy and we get along great. He’s … » full post and pics!
bought a house!!!!
Finally we can officially share the news, now that the conditions of financing and a satisfactory home inspection have been met: last week, on the Dutch Queen’s Day on April 30th, WE BOUGHT A HOUSE!!!! It’s located in the good and … » full post and pics!
househunting!
Last week we got pre-approved for a mortgage, sooner than expected!! This means the house-hunt has started, yay!!! We already saw one house that we loved and put an offer on it today, but even though our offer was 25,000 over the asking price, we got overbid (which we expected, … » full post and pics!
our goods have arrived!
Finally, after 6,5 weeks (including some delay in Montreal because we needed to prepay something and they apparently couldn’t reach us) our shipped goods, our 65 boxes of household and personal goods, have arrived in Regina! We both worked on Tuesday and saw on our phone later on that … » full post and pics!
breaking news: bought a car!!
Here it is… our ‘new’ (used) car… the biggest, baddest and prettiest car we’ve ever owned: a 2003 Ford Taurus SE! Check out the photo album for more pics! They call this a mid-sized car, but for us it’s a huge boat!! 😉 … » full post and pics!
detailed report 2: flight and first days
Here the details about our flights to Canada and the first days here in Regina! We don’t have wireless internet here at Tim’s yet, so we’re surfing on a weak signal from somewhere in the neighbourhood, which is often too weak to use for hours though. So our updating, surfing, … » full post and pics!
detailed report 1: last days in NL
Hello guys!
We’ve been doing really well here in our first week as Canadian residents. We applied for our SIN number and health card and did a lot of shopping (so much to get, so many stores, so much to … » full post and pics!
residents of Canada!
Well guys, we are now officially residents of Canada!! After a long travel of around 28 hours (3 flights, long overlays and a delay in Edmonton), we finally arrived in Regina at 2am!! We will fill you in on the details very soon!… » full post and pics!
bye bye!
Just a quick hello to say THANK YOU to everybody who we saw in the last days! Our co-workers, family, neighbours and friends have left us heartwarming presents, cards and words and we had a wonderful time on both the SURPRISE party on Saturday that Els organized (we had NO … » full post and pics!