Sarah and Ian's Move to Ottawa

The story so far...having planned and booked a three month trip to South America, we were given a difficult decision to make when Ian was offered a job in Canada. After much hard thinking, we took the job, but get the best of both worlds as we still have two weeks in Brazil and Chile before arriving in Ottawa. We are now living in Ottawa and enjoying the big adventure of living somewhere new. This is the story of our experience...

Saturday, March 05, 2005

Notta-chitty-bang-bang

I'd not appreciated how much paperwork there is when you move to another country. We've had a busy couple of weeks signing on for health care cards, national identity cards, my driving license, finding an apartment, getting insurance for the apartment and for our NEW car! We picked her up yesterday evening from the dealer. It's very exciting. She's a Toyota Echo hatchback, better known as a Yaris in the UK and she's silver. Her name is Mica. She lives on the second floor (basement level garage. Only until next week when we move and then she'll live on the road, but that won't fit in with the song lyrics). We drove in the hire car to pick up Mica and had to take the hire car back to the airport before driving Mica home. This meant that Mica's first drive was a whole 15 yards across the dealership car park, where we promptly left her and drove off in the hire car! She's done a total of 9km now so I'm thinking she's a bit past it and we might trade her in next week.

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