Moved in and starting the new life.

Quite a lot has gone on since my last post. We moved into our new place in Mission on Monday, we had a lot more boxes and things stored than we realised. Our biggest problem being we have lots of things and not enough shelves, draws and cupboards to put them in. A trip to Ikea next week will put that to rights I'm sure. Quick shopping trips last week got us sofa's, a desk and more than enough for the place to start to feel like a home. We've cooked our first few meals (discovering which kitchen utensils we are missing) so I'd say the place was now officially lived in.

Last week was a bit of a blur, and we're still sorting our schedules out a little. Jaime is currently working three days a week and I'm working Monday to Friday.

The dogs are so far loving life here, since we moved down off the mountain they have not had any bears to chase and rabbits are few and far between, however don't worry they have found a replacement, squirrels (of which there are many in Mission) have become this seasons rabbit, the dogs only frustration being that rather than just run around and dive down a hole, a squirrel will run up a tree just out of reach and sit there and mock them and despite their best efforts (including Duffy trying to throw himself up the tree) they can't reach them. We're still exploring the area and finding offlead dog walks has been a bit of a challange due to the leash laws here, but we're persistant and not afraid to walk a long way so its working out. Yesterday we took the dogs for a good long 2 hour walk down by the Fraser river and found a nice little trail we'll be taking again, I think we could spend months if not years discovering trails in the Fraser Valley and probably will.

On a more personal perspective, I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around the size of things in North America since we moved back. Everything from Sandwiches to Vehicles are MASSIVE. Picture this.... a simple pre-packaged Ham Sandwich from Sainsbury's or some other store in the UK... two slices of bread, a couple of slices of wafer thin ham and if you have gone for the ham salad option, a couple of lettuce leaves and tomato maybe with a faint waft of mustard, the whole thing cut diagonally placed side by side in a convenient triangular plastic container. Now try and imagine a 15" French stick, filled with a some lettuce leaves, a little tomato, around 20+ slices of not thin ham, cooked sausage, honey mustard dressing, sliced in half, placed side by side on a plastic tray wrapped in cling-film and sold for... £3. Its more than Jaime and I can eat for lunch combined.