And we're in

Sorry for the delay in updating - I've been busy working, Richard's been busy unpacking and we've been without t'interweb for a few days. The house is gorgeous and so far we've got the living room straight but everywhere else is still chaos.

The area we've moved to is lovely, loads of trees and over 70km of trails for cycling and walking. We cycled about 0.1 of them this morning to test our new bikes and I'm now walking like John Wayne.

As a true civil engineer, I had to take a picture of this bridge. This is a wooden rail trestle across the River Sturgeon near us, dating from 1907 (the bridge not the river) and still in use.

The weather has been too hot over the last weeks - high 20s to low 30s every day so we've been sleeping in the basement every night as it's the coolest place in the house. On Friday We had our first barbecue on Friday night.

Last Saturday we were invited to a box at the U20 soccer world cup with a few people from work. It was a really good match, even for a non-football fan like me, and went to penalties. The box was air conditioned with two rows of seats in front of it and there was lots of lovely free food and drink.

Otherwise not much news, other than the house. My first tender at work won the job so I'm feeling really good about that. I now feel worth all the money the company has invested in me.

H-Day

Couldn't sleep again last night, but this time it's because I'm too excited. We get our house today and I probably get to buy my new TV, the world is a happy place once more.

This morning will be a bit of packing and then shopping for some small appliances / big appliances with 40"+ screens 1080p res and loads of inputs.
Then this afternoon we take posession and start dumping our stuff and maybe we'll go and buy some more stuff.

Tomorrow my work really starts, the container arrives so I'll be co-ordinating where everything's going. no actual lifting, there are people for that kind of thing :) Cable guy will be turning up and I think sofa's are too, although that could be Wednesday.

This is an exciting time in the life of the fool & wife, thanks for reading.

Ok Too Hot, you can stop it now.

The weather here is now both lovely and too nice. Last nice was the hottest night in living memory for me anyway. We now have a week of 30+, just can't wait to get to the new house where I can hide in the basement until winter.

Beware the basement, the fool resides within.

Apparently a lot of Canadians hide in the basement over the summer, gopher it!

More house photos

By popular request, here are some photos of the rooms which aren't henceforth to be known as BF's Room (with someone else's furniture) -

Living room

Kitchen

Den

Bathroom
Master bedroom

Bedroom 2

Bedroom 3
So now you know.

We went we saw we sweltered....

Well the footie was a great evening all-in-all. We had fun, went with some nice people and it was a great atmosphere. Football was a bit poor, the first game anyway, we stayed for the first half of Chile Congo and that was a lot more interesting. Two games for $15, bargain. And the Commonwealth Stadium was amazing, brilliant views and a 40ft x 20ft jumbotron screen.

The weather was gorgeous, mid 30's and bright, bright sunshine. Luckily we had our backs to it, marvellous :)

The only bad point was queuing to collect our tickets. The organisers were very unorganised. They had 4 people sorting out tickets for the 31,000 that turned up........in one hour. So most of the other people did not get in for the first game, or at best the first half. Note I said other people, 'smug mode', we got there a bit earlier, got our tickets after about 30 mins and sat down, complete with hotdogs, at kickoff.

Thursday Night Footie!

And tomorrow we're going here:






It's the Commonwealth Stadium and we're going to watch Canadia v Austria in the U20's World Cup. Not great tickets but we're looking forward to the experience. And they get some support over here, it holds over 60,000 and it's sold out.

Canada Day: Fireworks

And in the evening we wandered over to downtown to see the Canada Day Fireworks. For those of you who know, think the recent displays in Norwich, pretty impressive. Not quite dark but all ages and types were wandering around being nice:) Even if the public toilets were a bit of a scrum.

Us in front of teh legislature building, note we're both alive for insurance purposes.

Oh yeah, and they create a waterfall from a nearby bridge, not sure how but it looks quite cool.

BF with another UK couple moving out here on the same program as Jacqui and I. That's Nathalie and Stephen.

Pretty fireworks.

Last flurry of the night.

Canada Day Celebrations: The Parade

Over here Canada is a big thing, bank holiday, beer, celebrations and fireworks etc. So being johnny foreigners we decided to see what it's all about. We missed the free pancake breakfast but we did get to see the parade. Not spectacular but okay if you like that sort of thing.

Sky at Night

A bit blurry, but here are some pictures of the night sky from our balcony on June 30th. Some crazy lightning was going on as well. These were taken at 11:30 pm, it takes a while to get dark here :)