We now live in Calgary and have for the past three or so weeks, but our furniture from Lewiston had to go ALL THE WAY down to Houston to meet up with our stuff in storage and then all of it got shipped together up here and just arrived on Friday. We've been living in an empty house for far too long. It's good to have our furniture and stuff, but I think I could do without our old aquariums and MVP trophies from high school. I've got a lot of sorting to do and it's really overwhelming. We packed our house up nearly 2 years ago to move to Korea in such a rush that a lot of stuff that should have been discarded wasn't. NUTS! Oh well. As for now, most of it is shoved in a closet and I have vowed to go through one box a day starting next week. I need a rest.
We're enjoying our house. I'll give you a house tour when I'm up to it. But just a block or two away from our place, we have the following view of the city:
We've joined the YMCA in town and Lincoln is loving swimming lessons. Bennett is hating the day care there. It's good prep for nursery in a few months, right?
Well, I always thought that Canada was just like the USA with socialized medecine, but I was wrong. Things I have learned include:
- They have $1 and $2 coins so I always think I'm getting shorted when people give me change.
- Hockey is number 1, Canadian Rules football #2, NFL maybe 3rd.
- 80% of what's on the radio HAS to be Canadian which is no good. Where is my NPR???
- Babies don't get pediatricians unless they have really serious health issues, and you have to know someone who knows someone to get a good doctor or a doctor at all. What the?
- If you're at the grocery store, and you can't read what's on the food label, flip it over for the English side. EVERYTHING is in French AND English. I thought that that was only the case in Quebec.
- Maternity leave is 1 year, and everyone gets 1 Friday off a month.
- Beig = Bag, although that's true for my in-laws as well.
- Kraft Dinner = Mac and Cheese
- Mum = Mom (mum's the word here)
- Credit cards have microchips in them.
- They charge you for monthly fee for banking services like letting you have an ATM card, making as many withdrawals as you want, etc.
- Don't leave your passports in the console of your locked car in front of your house or else they will get stolen and then you will have to apply for your forth passport in 5 years.
The End.
I think the last one's the same in the US, except you'll need that passport to get OUT of the US rather than back IN. Love you! Miss you! Wish you lived next door so we could hang out all day.
ReplyDelete