Tuesday 29 June 2010

Almost July!!!!

The passports are back with shiny visa's in them and the container of furniture has sailed!!! The removal guys were amazing and had everything packed and gone in 2 days. Unfortunately the ship didn't actually set sail on time....think it left around June 24th but according to GB Liners it will still arrive on time!!!!! If not my fab pal Amanda has a Plan B involving blow up mattresses and a van lol!!
I got my days muddled...yes me the queen of organisation!! I'd booked us 2 nights in Toronto when we land on July 4th and the plan was to have Monday in the city then head to Barrie on the Tuesday with another hotel stay there. We now have to be in Barrie at the lawyers at 9am Monday morning...aaaargh!! So the plan now is that me and hubby will head to the lawyers and leave the kids in Toronto for the morning...I say kids but they are 20, 18 and 10!!!
I am finding some of the Canadian companies a tad frustrating in that we email them information and they reply later asking for the same information we already sent them...its as if they don't read the emails!! We are also having problems contacting the gas company as the numbers we have are for businesses not residences and when we asked them for the number they didn't know it but have apparently had this problem before !!!! Even so we have managed to arrange electricity, water, TV/broadband/phone, house insurance including tornado cover, banks...yaaay!!
So now its just trying to get the last bits into the 5 flight bags...I can feel a battle coming on..groan!!
Its a chaotic week this week with loads of things happening with the kids...eldest is moving into his new flat, middle one has just finished her A levels and the little one has Yr 6 disco and speech day before the school breaks up for the summer.
Finally after more than 16 years since we first set foot in Ontario and 3 years of immigration hoops to jump through we can finally say we are moving permanently to Ontario on Sunday!!!!!!!!!

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