A pre move update

It is only a couple of days until we move to our rental house and we are all very excited and busy packing.  It is amazing how much stuff we have accumulated in such a short time.  We have also had a phone call to say that our goods have arrived in the country from England so hopefully we will receive them at our new home in the next week or two.  It will be great to have some familiar things and the girls will think Christmas has come early with all their toys arriving.

Today Gracie received the Respect award at school.  It is a very bid deal and I managed to drive there to see it being given to her.  We are very proud of her!

I thought it would be good to post some photos of the cottage we are in now.  It is called the Colonel Cottage and sits on Burridge Lake.

This is the view of the cottage looking up from the lake.

This is the view of the cottage from the front.

Yesterday evening Mya put some bread on the deck for the Blue Jays.  Unfortunately it got late and the birds had gone to bed but we had another visitor....

He was not frightened at all of us and sat right by the door eating the bread.  I know people say they can be nasty, but he was rather cute!  Apparently a black bear has been spotted around here so perhaps we won't be putting any more bread out!

We are all set up with cars now.  Nearly every Canadian has a Dodge Caravan so I had to get one too.

Mick's is a Ford Focus station wagon - yes I know he is showing his age.

We have started to slowly look at houses to buy and went to see one the other day.  It has over 70 acres of land with it - some farm land and some wooded.  It was fantastic but the house is in a terrible state and needs more than we can possibly do.  It was great to see something so fantastic but not sure we will end up with quite so much land - not sure I see myself driving a tractor...