Exploring the Land of the Long White Cloud

I know you are hanging out for photos of the new house but I am saving that until later! We are still unpacking so aren't organized for a photo shoot yet. But there are plenty of pictures to share from the beerfest this past weekend. We got tickets months ago to avoid a last minute begging like last year . There were less tickets this year as well because I think it got a little out of hand for the organizers last year. So after a day of moving, and a morning of cleaning we headed into town to catch the bus up north where 40 minutes later we would be transported to "Oktoberfest" at the local brewery. Many people dress up but this year I couldn't be bothered - ok, well initially I was and I ordered my costume a month ahead of time but the listing size was wrong and when it arrived, there was no way I was fitting into it! Despite urging Dustin to zip it up while I tried not to breathe. So, after that I decided it was too much energy to find another. Th...

As you can see our living room has become a boxing week special as of this afternoon: Talk about keeners. We don't even move until Friday but are trying to really be ahead of the game as much as possible. So this afternoon we cleared out and cleaned the back two rooms so that there's that much less to do later. We've done a couple trips of taking our landlords' stuff to their storage unit and have one or two more big items of theirs to drop off later this week. So we are kind of all go here. In that stage where most of what isn't packed is still being used so there's a whole lot of kitchen to box up still. But we're just 6 sleeps away now with offers to help move coming in left and right. So we'll just hope for good weather and be all set! We're planning to just get straight in Friday afternoon. We're both taking a half or whole day off (depending how we're looking Wednesday/Thursday) and as people are off work they will come an...