Rain Happens

Thursday, August 24, 2006


Well I thought I would put a pic of Kirbey havin a little jet lag, you must get how weird this is for Kirbey,she just never sleeps anywhere but her bed.We have had pretty good weather so far, only a couple of days, OK 5 or 6 days where it has rained. The rest of the time it is like room temp outside, usually. I have had to put on a coat only twice, we even had over 30 when we first got here. The funny thing is people here start to complain how hot it is when it gets anything over 23ish. Some were trying to say maybe Kirbey was sleeping because of the heat and our new dog, Mungo, has been scratching(maybe flees yuck) and the people where we bought the flee shampoo said maybe it was the heat and it had only been in the low 20s for the previous three weeks! We just smile and say to ourselves "they don't know heat".


We took the girls to the beach when we first got here and they had their first dip in the ocean in their lives. They did not like the taste at all.

We also spent the first week doing some painting, our house had some very bold colours even for here. We could not move in for the first week because we were waiting for our furniture and we did not legaly own the house yet(after 4 months)but the real estate agent let us have the keys,anyway we thought we would paint a lot but we only go one room done.We spent so much time fooling around trying to buy a car, beds and wardrobes that we ran out of time before we had to move in. We also spent a lot of time in government offices with all the polish people getting PPS numbers so we would acctually exist here.That was interesting because we could not get a number without an address and could not get a bank account without an address and could not get a bank statement until we had some activity and could not get a utility bill to prove we lived here until we owned the house and lived there and so on and so on, but, it all worked out when it sould have taken much longer, A GOD THING???

4 Comments:

At 5:55 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

That is wierd to see Kirbey sleeping. Ha ha! The Ocean looks quite pretty. Flat though, that must not be where people surf.TIANNA

 
At 12:37 a.m., Blogger Sonia said...

Yeah! It looks like you have internet!!

So hard to believe how long it takes to get things done...sounds a little bit like "Victoria time" only slower.

 
At 1:37 a.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hello Swabey family! It is so nice to read about your adventures so far. It does sound like things have been falling into place for you and that is a god thing! I like seeing the photos and reading your updates. Take care of each other. I'm thinking about you all. ~Norma

 
At 10:00 p.m., Blogger Santosh said...

Hi Gary

Nice to read updates about your big transition. Say hi to every one at the church. We are considering leasing a 1000 sq. foot space in yaletown - the price tag is 2 grand/mth!

blessings

sn

 

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