{"id":110,"date":"2004-09-29T10:59:26","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T08:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wobben.org\/general\/canada-2004\/110"},"modified":"2020-01-28T00:07:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T06:07:48","slug":"back-home-or-back-in-holland-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/saskatchewan\/regina-area\/back-home-or-back-in-holland-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"back home… or back in Holland anyway :("},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00bb photo albums<\/strong> 2004\/CANADA<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We got back “home” safely yesterday, but I’m so horribly homesick…. \ud83d\ude25<\/p>\n

Our last days of the trip:<\/p>\n

Sept. 26th – Regina<\/strong><\/p>\n

I had a good night sleep and woke up with a clear head again, yeah! Jack, Tim’s dad, came by to pick us up to go to Lumsden<\/strong> in “the valley”. This valley is about 30 km north of Regina and almost like an oasis in the prairie. When we drove to Saskatoon for the first time it was still very green and Tim said it looked like Germany. Now the colours were changing and it looked much browner, but still nice! We went to get Jack’s friend Jenny and had breakfast there in Lumsden. Really lovely town! In the afternoon Into Eternity had to practice and Tim dropped us off downtown to check out the Cornwall Centre<\/strong>. We really love Regina and there are several reasons why living here is a good option (as hard as it may seem to some, hehe), but we were disappointed in the size of the shopping area (read: the Cornwall Centre). You got all sorts of shops there, but we expected more streets with shops around it. After all Regina is not all that small (190.000 people I think) and must have a regional function, since the nearest city of a similar size is 280 km away. I don’t remember anymore why shops would leave downtown, but apparently lots of shops are in strip malls in the outskirts now. And there are several other malls, so it seems it’s just spread out more. After Tim and Rob picked us up again, we went to eat at Tony Roma’s (I had those delicious baby back ribs again, mmmmm \ud83d\ude42 and around 7 we went to Boston Billiards for a short-notice Saskmetal gathering<\/strong>. We had a good time with Nathan, Marlo, Stace, Steph, Jim, Chad, Adam, Dean, Tim, Naoimi, PP (Dustin), Luc, Troy, Reid and of course Russ \ud83d\ude42 (hope I didn’t forget anyone!)<\/p>\n

Sept. 27th\/28th – flight home<\/strong><\/p>\n

12.20-17.15 (local times) flight AC 1154 Regina – Toronto
\n18.20-07.55 (local times) flight AC 9104 Toronto – Frankfurt
\n09.15-10.00 flight AC 9123 Frankfurt – D\u00fcsseldorf
\nthen shuttle bus to home…….. *sigh* (note: it’s gonna be the 28th by then!)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Time to go home, booohoooooo!!!! Tim improvised the millionth song about how he didn’t want us to leave and Jack came to get us for one last breakfast at Stan’s<\/strong> (the best and nicest place we’ve been to!). Of course he wouldn’t allow us to pay for anything again \ud83d\ude09 Mark came out to join us too. At 11.30 Tim dropped us off at the airport and we said our goodbyes… even though it would just be for a few days hehe! We’ll be seeing the band at ProgPower in Baarlo (NL) next weekend. We had the hardest time to actually get on the flight, we were very tempted to stay put and just not board! But we forced ourselves to do it… The flights went smooth again, on the one from Regina to Toronto<\/strong> the Ottawa football team was on board, they just lost from Regina the night before, so I was told by the woman next to me. We had a hard time not gloating over how wonderful Regina is hehe! We didn’t want to make the boys cry \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

On the big flight to Frankfurt<\/strong> there was a medical emergency, but luckily it wasn’t too bad, the man who passed out was walking around again later on. After the flights we took the shuttle bus back home<\/strong>, we arrived safely at 11.30am. Vera put a welcoming card on the door, and some food in the fridge, wow! She just thinks of everything! And Thijs has been taking well care of the house and Robin, we were sure he gained weight haha! But he came running to us right away – ya never know with a cat! We tried to stay awake, but couldn’t… I wanted to nap for an hour, but I slept 3 hours! Our heater was broken, we had no heat nor hot water and they wouldn’t come until the next morning, so I went to Vera’s for a shower and crawled underneath a blanket on the couch, being very very depressed, very very homesick and crying my eyes out – Canada, we have to get back to you!!!!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

So here we are….
\nWe’ll have to get back into our daily routines here, but we’ll be reading and talking about emigration a lot. I already told my dad we’re gonna check into moving to Canada. I said it was a bit far away, but he said, honey you have to think about yourself, go for it if you want it! My dad’s the best \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

This is where our Canada 2004 journal ends… keep an eye on my posts for further developments \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00bb photo albums 2004\/CANADA We got back “home” safely yesterday, but I’m so horribly homesick…. \ud83d\ude25 Our last days of the trip: Sept. 26th – Regina I had a good night sleep and woke up with a clear head again, yeah! Jack, Tim’s dad, came by to pick us up to go to Lumsden in “the valley”. This valley is about 30 km … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971],"tags":[873],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regina-area","tag-canada-2004","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7567,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/7567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}