Is that our container at the end of the drive???!!!

Firstly, a couple of weeks ago we were having coffee with a family that were in the midst of planning their return back to the UK and got onto the conversation about how they were wondering if their games consoles would work in the UK.  Now to cut a long story short we decided that rather than both of us trying to use our own consoles and games in a different country we would swap everything and they would have our UK Wii and PS2 and we would have their Canadian ones.  

Their container was originally due to be packed after ours had arrived, but due to a delay at the port, then a shortage of delivery drivers in Calgary (very frustrating), our containers arrival date had been changed four times and the final date was after the other container was due to leave so we had to arrange (for a fee) to enter the warehouse in Calgary where our stuff was being stored whilst we had to wait for a delivery van and get the 3 boxes that contained the consoles and games, thus saving them from having to pack it all in their suitcases.  

Well at last, today was the day (after a lot of miscommunication with a very snotty women in the Calgay office) and the van containing the remainder of our worldly goods arrived this afternoon.

The arrival day of your belongings, that were last seen many weeks ago driving down the road, has been described to us by a friend as very much like christmas, which, as it turns out, was a very good discription.

They arrived aroung 1.30pm and spent the rest of the afternoon unpacking our boxes and it was amazing how much we had forgotten we had shipped.  At first it was all a bit surreal having last seen all our belongings in their places back in the UK, to watching them unwrap things into a pile then having to work through the pile to try and work out where everything could go in our new house (without having all our old furniture to put it in!)

Now the worrying bit, breakages.  We were no unrealistic and were prepared for this and were relieved to have only 3 breakages and some scratches to a picture frame, which considering how far it had all come we weren't too upset.

So we are sitting here with many piles left to still sort out but I think that another trip to Ikea may be necessary in order to be able to put things on display.

As soon as things start to look a bit more presentable, pictures will be taken and posted.