Saturday, August 4, 2007

New Home Sweet Home

We made it! We are safe and sound in Calgary, Alberta. Although we miss Cayman and all our friends, it is great to be back in Canada!

Our new condo is awesome - it has a skylight that lets in tons of light without a lot of hot sunshine! We have a fair size deck and the floor plan is very open, which I like. Here's a couple photos, but it's hard to get the full picture. It has it's own entrance, and we're on the second floor with no one above us, and it has two bedrooms (one that fits our king size bed!!). The outside is also really nice with rock walls and tan panelling.




We've already purchased a bed, couch, loveseat, TV (free with furniture!) and TV stand, cell phones, chest of drawers, and my favorite - our new Chevy Equinox!! It's a smaller SUV, but it does just about as good on gas as a car, with lots of room, and it handles much better than our old Hyundai Accent!! It's a contest between Kelly and I to see who gets to drive it each time! The biggest difference here is we can get things right away - all our stuff was delivered within a couple days!! Yeah for efficiency and customer service again!

Best of all, I'm only a ten minute drive from school, which is incredible for Calgary!! And even if Kelly works downtown, we've discovered it only takes 30 minutes in rush hour, so that's not bad either! Kel has had lots of interviews, and he's looking for the right one. He says he might want to wait until December to make a choice, but I said he only has until the end of September! :o)
Our trip to Quebec was really great - we got some tours of old Quebec (which is apparently 400 years old!), had a river boat cruise on the St. Lawrence river, and had a carnaval dress up night where we all dressed up in awesome costumes (I was a geisha (if you know what that is you'll get a kick out of it!) and Kelly wore a dress - which was supposed to be a caveman outfit but ended up looking like a spotted leopardskin dress - we had a great time laughing over it!). Rick Mercer was our surprise guest speaker, and was totally awesome! I haven't laughed so hard for so long ever! We also got to listen to Randy Bauchman and Burton Cummings live (from the Guess Who and BTO), and they totally rocked! They sing songs like Taking Care of Business and American Woman. Overall, it was an amazing experience, and the Tim Horton's franchise did a great job organizing everything - things started on time and were finished on time. And they had a big job to do - there were 2,400 people at this thing! We had to take 57 chartered buses to the river boat cruise! That's a pic of me with the Chateau Frontenac (not sure I spelled that right!) in the background - the most beautiful hotel in Quebec - looks like an old castle!

But that's a lot for now - hope all your summers are going great!