Immigration Journal

The story of two people who emigrated from the UK to Ontario, Canada July 2006.

Daughters visit booked

Yesterday we decided to take a drive round whilst the weather was nice. We basically followed our noses and ended up in the Thousand Island area near Kingston.

We started out in the morning after a hearty breakfast at Denny’s, then just followed our noses. There are some simply beautiful lakes around this area and we kept stopping off to take a look and take the odd picture.

It is really nice just to take a drive as you often don’t venture too far from home and miss out on many things, which are really close by.

We did this the other week when we went down onto Prince Edward County and visited the Sandbanks area. This is a stunning bit of coastline and we are thrilled to have a great beach so close. It will be a nice place to take my aunt and uncle when they come over next year from Spain – not sure if we can compete with Spain though?

Anyone know of any other really nice locations in the area?

Yesterday we booked flights for hubby’s daughter and her friend to come over in December. They are coming over on the 4th and staying till the 19th. They want to visit Niagara Falls, Toronto, New England etc. We are happy to take them to these places depending on what the weather is like at this time. If there is six foot of snow, then maybe not!

I am sitting looking out of the window and we have a sudden influx of American Robins in the garden. We had thought that they had all left for the winter as we hadn’t seen any for a while, but there are about 20 in the garden at the moment. We have also seen loads of Dark Eyed Juncos which a lovely little birds.

It is pouring with rain today – again, so probably won’t be going too far today. Hubby also wants to get the drywall for the basement but needs to wait until the weather is better to avoid it becoming wetwall.

Social Life

We have made friends with a few people, but due to the fact we live in the middle of nowhere, with only one close neighbour (who rarely comes out of the house) and the fact that we both work from home it doesn't lend itself to meeting lots of people.

We were pretty much like that in the UK too. Hubby worked from home and I had a few friends at work, but rarely went our socially with them.

Good job we like each others company!
Posted by Canada Jane

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