Sunday, September 19, 2010

T-minus 8 Days Till Departure-The First Leg of the Journey

Holy cow that number seems to have dropped quick!!!! Ahhhh!!!!!

Wow, what a long day!!! A good day, but a long one!!! It started at 3:30 am and went by quickly, by 4 am we were on the road to Ottawa to take Katie (my brother Matt’s girlfriend) to the airport for her journey up north.  (If I haven’t mentioned it, Matt decided to follow us up north but got there 2 weeks ago, haha, kinda hard to tell who’s following who now!)  So we all piled into a friend’s quad cab 1/2 ton truck (thanks Dan!) and hit the road with approx 200 lbs of luggage and Ryan’s 420 lb tool box in the back. Luckily Kaitlyn and I were able to get a little sleep in the back, and Katie, unable to sleep anyway, was able to keep Ryan awake in the driver’s seat.  We accompanied Katie to baggage, which was a good experience for us because we are able to see the procedure for oversize baggage prior to our flight next week. It is funny seeing everyone with their bins and huge baggage getting in lines for airlines called things like Bearskin Airlines!  I kinda wish that one flew to Iqaluit, that would be cool! haha, We only get to go on plain ol’ Air Canada, bah! Just Kidding! We get personal TV’s on the back of each seat! Okay definately getting tired now, my dorky humour is coming out….

Anyways, after saying our goodbyes to Katie we headed off to drop Ryan’s toolbox off at First Air Cargo, thank goodness that was a bill picked up by his employer! Phewww! At 192 kg and over $5 a kg….yah! As we drove off glad to have a big part of our move on its way, Ryan realized he forgot to put his new wrenches in the box, so we had to drive back, haha! We knew things were going too smoothly! That was okay though because we were able to take the picture we forgot to take of the cargo building!

We had a nice drive home, switched cars and were able to get a few things done at the house, have I mentioned we have tons to do there still, ahh!!! We took Kaitlyn to the local park for the last time :( it was so nice to have Ryan with us for a change!!!

  Then we went for a nice BBQ/playdate with some friends, where we received an awesome going away present for Kaitlyn (Stonz booties!!!!). We finally got home at 8:15 pm, so we are very tired!!! Tomorrow we will be heading off to the house, and hope to have EVERYTHING done by Tues evening, plan on having our storage unit picked up on Wednesday so we can spend time with family and friends the last few days here….we will see how it goes!

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