Six months! Today we’ve been here for six months already! It flew by, but at the same time our time in Holland already seems like a lifetime ago. To me anyway, Nico says the goodbye parties seem only a few months away. Anyway… I think we can proudly say that … » full post and pics!
moved! / Regina Beach / Wascana Lake sunset
Moved!
Yes, it all went well and we moved as planned on the 12th! The floor is nice and shining again, but unfortunately the screening technique couldn’t remove the worn down spot nor remove the thick layer of lacquer in the bedrooms. They colored the bedrooms a bit to mask … » full post and pics!
moving on Thursday / Mosaic festival
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!
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!
winter prairie
» photo album 2008/0302 ~ Katepwa, Qu’Appelle Valley, Fort Qu’Appelle
Today we went for a drive and left Regina to the east. We drove to Indian Head, then north to the Qu’Appelle valley, to Fort Qu’Appelle and back to Regina. There was a very hard and cold wind blowing … » 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!
back in Holland…
Since Sunday afternoon we are on Dutch turf again. The flights were all good and on time, but Heathrow was very busy this time (we needed 1,5 hour for the change, but had 3). On the flight from Regina to Edmonton I got some nice aerial … » full post and pics!
last days in Regina
Lisa and Jaimie took me to the Regina Memorial Gardens to visit the boys. Dave and Danny are buried next to each other, but there isn’t any grass on their plot yet, nor the headstone that they are going to get (with Band Of Brothers on … » full post and pics!