The big day has finally come and the excitement is overwhelming. Neither Heather or I could get more than 4-5 hours of solid sleep. It's a good thing we both had a day off work. At 8 in the morning I took Heather's car to a local garage for an emission test which is required for older cars at the time of renewing stickers. The inspection took about 15 minutes and the Grand Am passed the tests with flying colours.
Back at home, Heather was finishing out our passport applications. My passport expires at the end of December and Heather decided to get a new one with an updated name. We didn't encounter any lines at the passport office in Kitchener and were out of there in less than 15 minutes. Then we drove straight to Waterloo to the office of Ministry of Transportation to take care of some business. That business included: updating driver's licence to the new address (x2), purchasing plate stickers for our vehicles (x4 - Elantra, Grand Am and two Boulevards), new vehicle registration papers with new address (x4) and changing address on the health cards (x2 - we will not receive new cards as those don't include the address info). All of that took so long that the line behind us grew from zero to about 6-7 people as we were leaving.
Back in Breslau once again we had lunch and then Heather went upstairs to catch up on some sleep while I waited. The call finally came at 2pm. I woke Heather up and 25 minutes later we had the key to our very first house!
We have the key!
We went back to Breslau to quickly pick up some loose ends and then drove both cars to Woodstock. I had planned to ride a motorcycle but it rained constantly throughout the day so I decided that the motorcycles will have to be moved at a later date. We took both cars because beginning tonight overnight parking on city streets is not permitted in Breslau. The key worked and we were in our house for the first time as owners just before 4pm.
A little present from the builder.
I moved the Grand Am into the garage and then we went on a drive around Woodstock which included stops at a post office, Canadian Tire (making copies of keys), Public Storage to pick up some things that could fit into a car, and Subway for some much needed supper. Since the bulk of the move will not happen until Friday, we did a few little things and I was able to at least start furnishing one of the 'rooms' in the house. We left Woodstock at 7pm with three more days to go before we actually start living there.
The garage is filling up.
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