I’m not really home, but whatever, but I’m home on Kirupa.
My first post on KirupaForum from Newfoundland, the move has been hard to swallow to say the least. Its one thing to look forward to, but once you have to live through it its another monster all together. Just thought I’d let you know I’m here, but not queer 
I’ll be around, still really busy getting settled. I’ll right up a detailed explanation later once I have time 
I was wondering how this went!
Well good luck 
Expect some Newfie jokes over AIM :trout:
:flower:
details will be nice :pleased: cant wait!
welcome back, nice to see you arrived safely. =)
[sing]welcome back welcome back weeellllcommmmmee back [/sing]
Unflux – I responded to your PM
I’ll start the details now…
THE DEPARTURE
Its really wierd seeing a house you’ve lived in for 15 years get packed, boxed, and stuffed into a big truck… and then walking back in the empty house. I can already tell you I won’t be moving much. They packed on Monday and Tuesday of the week, and moved the stuff to the van on Wednesday, and Thursday. Moving stuff that was used by a family of 6 is no easy task by any stretch of the imagination. The house was signed over on the Friday.
We stayed in a hotel on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights, although I wasn’t there on Friday. On Friday, I went out to my beloved golf course and said goodbye to friends and colleagues alike one of which, who I used to get rides everywhere, has incidentally flipped his car – perhaps its a good thing I moved and then went off to a birthday party for a good friend, pretty ackward. After the party, around 2 AM, I walked over to my friend’s house with my best friend, and a couple other friends, who were girls, and they were all crying because of my departure SCORE! and it was pretty funny, yet sad at the same time. So we went into my friends house, ordered pizza, and watched a movie with my group of friends… good last night. Had 1 hour of sleep, had to get up at 5:30 AM to get to the hotel by 6:30 AM.
THE TRIP
Theres something odd about checking in 21 pieces of luggage into a small airport – for one family. Security was horrible, as could be expected, having to go through that many bags of luggage and check everything, and my family being a pretty teched-up family with lots of laptops and media players, etc. it took so long, almost too long. We went from Kingston to Toronto on a small, 30 person plane. Not a fun ride at 8 AM after 1 hour of sleep to say the very least. We arrived in Toronto, and jumped on a HUGE plane for the non-stop trip halfway across the continent, to the very eastern tip of North America from where I am now, the most eastern point on the continent is a 10 minute drive The flight was incredibly comfortably, but I didn’t fall asleep. We arrived, clocks and watches went an hour and a half ahead, and we met up with family. Off our huge barracade of family cars went, a total about 5 cars carrying luggage etc., was a sight to see.
THE WEEK AFTER
This week was the very thing nightmares are made of… we rented a small, 2-bedroom, 3-storey townhouse on the harbour, very nice… but one very slight problem, the supposed-to-be-furnished townhouse turned out to be the not-so-furnished-but-kind-of-livable townhouse. It was an uphill battle indeed. The owners of this so-called hotel was less than flexible. They came over and took all furniture from the basement room, I came downstairs and asked “Well, what in heck’s name is supposed to go in there?” The answer I got was a shrug and they walked out.:A+:on the grounds of customer service. Basically everything the woman said would be there to my dad in May, well, wasn’t.
In the meantime, the so-called “Christmas House” was getting repainted and partially refloored. Due to the amazing coordination of my mom, everything went off without a hitch before and after photos to come, hard to believe its the same house If you knew how much money we paid for the house, and actually had gotten the “pleasure” of being in it, you would have realized:
a) We get RIPPED…
b) but we were desparate
I can’t believe people put houses like this on the market… but its all better now…
To be continued… an ordeal to say the least, lol. :beam:
hi!
So where exactly is newfoundland? (sorry, I don’t know my geography that well)
Welcome back colin 
I can’t wait to read Part II of your moving adventure.
More more more!
Sonds like you have had an interesting venture…
yeah, this is one for the grandkids
Its east of Quebec, west of atlantic ocean and north-east of Ontario. Hey Colin, why did you move so far from Ontario?
Awesome to see you at your new place and safe
Look on the bright side, your still in the best country in the world! :thumb:
[size=1](ok, so I’m a little biased)[/size]
definitely
Its on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, as I said before I think, the most-easterly point in North America is a 10 minute drive from here.
Believe me, this decision had very little to do with me, or my siblings. We all wanted to stay in Ontario, and I’ll definitely be back. Newfoundland has a certain stigma it can’t shake… the city I’m living in, St. John’s, is 220,000 in population and growing, but the province as a whole still seems to be stuck in the past in a lot of ways, its really old fashioned. We moved here because:
a) My dad was offered a really good position at Memorial University
b) My mom is from here, and all her family is still here
Wow you’re alive! Good job! 
I knew you went to Nfld. but you haven’t been around in awhile so I just assumed you fell off a cliff after being startled by an atlantic puffin. :lol:
Sounds like quite an adventure you had there. Reminded me of Home Alone. lol
Awesome. The Week After sounds pretty bad, I hate landlords like that. Immigrating can be quite an experience, can’t it.
They were just inexperienced at the “hotel” industry. I mean, when you mislead a future customer saying stuff is going to be there and then taking things back afterwards, ex. we had an extra TV that was unopened in our small storage room, we figured it belonged in the basement entertainment unit, so we put that in it, hooked it up with our brand new Xbox, and then in a couple of days, they came and took the TV saying “only one per unit” when the woman told my dad that not only would there be 3 TVs, but each would have a DVD player and a VCR. So all that was left in the basement area was an empty entertainment unit, no couch or anything. That cracked me up for some reason… do you think something was missing? 
I mean, it was a good deal and all (it was 300 a night, which might sound huge, but take into account if we stayed in a normal hotel, we would need to rent 2 2-bed rooms because we have 6 in my family, which would go for around 150 a night each, going to this place was more flexible).
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