Good Bye

We said good bye to our home in Brampton on January 16, 2019 and we said good bye to our family and friends a little before that. It was a very bright and sunny day for our move, cold but sunny. It took all day to load the truck that came to get our stuff. It was strange to see the house be emptied out of almost twenty years we lived here. You know, you don't realize how many things you have until it's time to move it out but each thing is something that reminds us of the years gone by. That is life. You have your family, your work, your good times, your bad times and then you have your things and yes I like a lot of things. So it was quite a job to get my things onto one truck. A word to the wise, when you order a truck make sure it's an empty truck because ours was not. Someone else's things were already on it and to make long story short some of our things didn't fit in. The trucking company left us scrambling in the late hours of the evening to figure out what to do with the rest of our things, lucky we had some friends ready to help us out. Steven got situated in an apartment and we spent the night at a hotel so we can get an early start to a new chapter in our lives.

We got the early start we wanted to make our journey to New Brunswick but a couple of hours in first thing on the agenda .. car trouble. Smoke from under the hood meant a stop at a car shop to check out what was the matter. We just had the van in the shop for a general check to make sure this very thing did not happen and still it seemed something was wrong with the radiator. It was the blown hose 

We got the early start we wanted but a couple of hours the first thing on the agenda was.. car trouble. We just had the car at the shop for a general check up to make sure this very thing did not happen and still the van was smoking. We pulled into a car shop in Kingston to see what was the matter.. a blown radiator hose. It took a little over an hour to get it right again and we were back on the road and our journey to New Brunswick.

We traveled with our two furry companions Buddy and Sabrina. Buddy is fourteen years old and we weren't sure how he would to with such a long trip and a complete change in his life but he seemed to hang in there. Sabrina is much younger but she is very attached to Sherie, John and the boys and we were afraid she may cry the entire time being apart form them but she did fine as well as they buried themselves in the many blankets in the back seat with Maya. Needless to say our van was crammed full with the leftover things from the house.

As we drove further and further into Quebec it got colder and colder. Piles of snow could be seen from the highway and as it got dark it got frigidly cold, with the van windshield constantly fogging up and the side windows getting covered with ice on the inside. When it got dark temperatures reached -28C at one point but if felt much colder with the chilly winds howling around us. We stopped to pick up some food in a place that felt and looked like the far reaches of the Arctic. We wanted to drive some more but decided to stop off as soon as we reached New Brunswick. In Edmundston we found the same hotel we stayed at in Brampton and got to sleep for the night.