Getting to Newfoundland...

I was living in Ontario, with my wonderful Husband, Bill and we decided to move to Newfoundland.


It's been exciting making arrangements to move to another province, away from family, Son, Christopher, his wife Virginia and our wonderful Grandchildren, Christina, Zachary and Sarah.  Also our friends and our home church, Kespres...


Thinking about technology, we can keep in touch on Facebook, via email, there is always Skype, and the good old telephone!  But non-the-less I will miss everyone terribly.


But onward, having to sell a home and planning a move is big stuff.  It took us just about 2 mths to sell the house, and then the packing began and the fateful words from my hubby "Your not taking that, are you?"  Boy I can tell you that by the time we where leaving I was going to kill him if I heard those words again!  :) But the packing was dreadful, so much thrown away and a little saved, with hubby saying, we can buy another one when we get there!


Arranging the move was a great deal of work, the logistics of it was frightening.  Canceling all of the services, making arrangements for new services on the other end, getting a moving truck, driver, airline tickets, soft kennels for the dogs and figuring out the money for all of that.  Heady stuff...but I got it all done and we where on our way.


Saying good-bye to everyone was hard, but so many good people visited for the final time, asked us for dinner, offered their place to us, it was heart warming.  The last good bye was the hardest, seeing our son and family was tough, but good.


The plane ride was good, we never got to sit beside each other, can't explain how that happened.  The dogs where in soft sided kennels so they could be in the cabin and under the seat in front of us, they where stars and traveled so well, we worried about our 17 yr old Darby, if she would survive the flight and she did, thank the Lord!  It was the first flight for both of them.


Arriving in Gander, the flight was good, even though we had to change planes in Halifax.  At the airport our good friends Bern and Vera, where there to pick us up, thank you again!  We got our luggage, it was all there!  Then the drive to Buchans!  (2-1/2 hours away)  We got there with no moose sightings, great driving Bern!


We got to the house, with just our suitcases and some groceries, bought at the local store.  Our furniture comes tomorrow.


Our first entire day in Buchans, it was a super day, the furniture was coming today and friends came over to help, thanking them all for there assistance.  Getting settled in...


The first thing I noticed is the air here is so clean and smells so good!  We where walking home one night and I looked up at the sky, and I saw what I thought was at least a million stars, the sky was full of them, I've never seen so many stars in one place!


The people here are the best, we've been welcomed above measure!  People coming over to ask if they can help, being asked out for a meal, asking us over to visit, just plain good folks! 


We've been here a month now, and I can say I'm still loving it!  Stores aren't as accessible, but you make due.  It's a long way into the next town if you want to get to Wal-mart or any other big store, the stores here in town are great, but supplies are limited, but that's OK, we just plan a road trip into GrandFalls/Windsor if we need something else. 


Been told to watch out for Moose along the highway, as sometimes there can be some bad accidents, so I have my camera with me always to catch that great picture, which I post on Facebook for all my friends back in Ontario and Newfoundland.