Hooray! It’s been 12 years since we arrived in Canada to stay! We first flew to Edmonton, where we had to go to Immigration to “land” as immigrants. We had a fairly long change over and friends were waiting for our arrival to take us to a restaurant. Later that … » full post and pics!
In the (Dutch) newspaper!
We were in Saturday’s newspaper… in Dutch though 😉 – here’s the digital file. Little correction, the last pic is in Buffalo Pound provincial park, not Wascana. And yes, Tim Roth was mentioned too, since he’s to blame for everything 😂
Winter updates, 10 years Canada and vacation plans!
Winter has been dry and cold, we’ve seen -36 without the wind chill!! Our New Year’s Eve party was a success again and so much fun! Then I was busy with making Valentine’s Crittens and then there were the Winter Olympics and oh yeah, it was our TEN YEARS IN … » full post and pics!
last 2010 photo updates
Time to add the last photos of 2010 to our gallery, that we still had on our computer and didn’t publish yet:
… » full post and pics!» photo album 2010/Miscellaneous 2010 – all sorts of pics from all of 2010 from home, on the road, animals, views etc that don’t have their own album!
several updates – meet Sheldon and Penny!!!
We’ve been so busy since we got back from BC, that I couldn’t keep up with the updates!
PR Card
We both have our Permanent Resident Cards now (I got it in August, Nico had to send in new pics and got it … » full post and pics!
BREAKING NEWS: Permanent Residence Visas!!
YEEAAAHHHHH we got the email from the Canadian visa office in LA that we can send in the passports for the permanent residence visas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!… » full post and pics!
2010 Olympics / winter wonderland
Right now we’re in full Olympics mode!! The openingsshow in Vancouver was fantastic and made us so proud to be a Canadian resident!! And thanks to our wonderful neighbours Mike and Alison we finally have the Olympic mittens too now! As for the games… Dutch speedskater Sven Kramer has Gold … » full post and pics!
RIP Melissa / request for medical received!!! / houseguests
RIP Melissa
Our hearts broke when we learned of our friend Barbara’s daughter Melissa’s unexpected passing at age 23 of a lung embolism. No one should ever have to deal with something like this, but Bar least of all. She just had a hard year after getting a new kidney, … » full post and pics!
PR application
Geez, how easy is it to postpone something, when you’re already comfortable where you’re at and the work permit will be valid for quite a while longer. And when you buy a bad ass motorhome and are often gone 
and when you also had family over for almost a month! … » full post and pics!