Our last weeks in Canada (part 3 - "the move")

And then on Friday July 5th at 9 pm (ahem), we moved into our new home. It felt wonderful.

Let's just skip over the subsequent mad dash 

• to move everything, 
• to deal with other self-drive moving truck that squeezed by our truck at 10:05 pm and scraped it, 
• to unpack 70% in order for another family to move in less than 2 days later, 
• to squeeze an ever-growing 30% into a storage area in the basement,
• to equip the bigger house with new items for 6 people, 
• to deal with a torrential deluge that left a (small) part of our new basement flooded (yup),
• to get some last "bits" out of the old house (a process that took not one person for 6 hours but 2 people and a truck about 11 hours); 
• and then of course, the dash to pack what we needed for 12+ months away...

There is a reason - or 8 - why the blog has been silent this month! A big thanks to all the wonderful folk near and far and of all ages who helped us to pull it off.