So as most of you have heard by now, we're heading back to Ontario. As excited as I was at news that we'd be closer to family, all of us have really settled here in Halifax and even started to call it "home". We have met some wonderfully amazing friends and our neighbours - couldn't ask for better. I will never regret our time in the Maritimes - what a great place! However, our chance to be closer to family and the ability for Rob to cut down on all the travel was too tempting.
As quick as they said go (or authorized the expenses) we headed to Ontario to look for a house somewhere between Durham and Cobourg. It was a stressful (what she really means to say is, it was "hell") 5 days of house hunting but we finally found ourselves something that should keep everyone in the family happy. A pretty nice house in a nice neighbourhood for me, a quiet street and an inground pool for the kids, and close enough for Rob that he's not spending hours commuting. It's located in Oshawa at Rossland and Thornton. The downfall was the day we put an offer on it, someone else did too so it got pretty stressful - but we prevailed in the end.
Photo: Rob taking the kids to see the house for the first time. (Hope they like it - guess it's too bad if they don't). And yes, there is mature vegetation in Toronto as some of our Maritime friends were surprised to learn.
Photo: View from the kids' fort.Our house in Halifax closes November 30 so we're going to have to stay in temporary housing (aka a hotel) for a month until our new house closes at the end of December. Time to have a big going away party now! Thank goodness for the extra bedroom in the basement - hope our Maritime friends will use it!
I guess I'll need to rename my blog as it's no longer going to be "Eastern Adventures". What about "Upper Canadian Adventures" -- that would be for Nathalie. Hmm, it doesn't have the same ring to it.
