Landed at Halifax airport 12 March 2007.

Paperwork completed in less than an hour.

Tuesday 13 March we opened an account with Scotiabank. Very straightforward.

Spent the first week waisting time with a realtor who had no real concept of what we were looking for.

To be fair our requirements were fairly specific and there werent any properties that matched them.

But she wasn't the type of person who actually listened to what we said and would book second viewings when we had told her that we would let her know if we wanted to go back. Anyway after a week we found ourselves a different realtor who was great.

We still couldn't find the hobby farm that we wanted and so switched our attention to finding a duplex. We had decided that we would buy a duplex so that our grown up sons could live in town and we could rent out the other flat to help pay for it.

We saw quite a variety of weather while in NB. Some days were -9 while some got up to +9.

Also we had to drive our sons to Halifax airport a week before we came home as they had to get back for college and work.

The night we drove them it started to snow and the journey back took 5 hours instead or the usual 2 1/2.

It was also very frighteneing driving on the 2 lane highway when you can't see the lines on the road and driving snow is coming at you and those huges trucks are thundering by and whiting out everything.

Well we found a good duplex in Moncton that the boys really like and our offer was accepted.

We had just decided that we would move into the duplex and take our time until the right farm came along when by chance we passed a farm in a perfect location that had a for sale board outside.

Our realtor made some enquiries and found out that it had been listed two years ago and then taken off while the owners got divorced.

He said it was due to be resolved soon, but didn't know when. Anyway he managed to get us in for a viewing the day before we left to come back to the UK.

The location we already knew was good.

What about the house? Well it is 40 years old and brick built. Unfortunately I think all the cupboards in there are 40 years old too.

It needs a lot of decorating and also new kitchen bathroom etc.

However we had to up our budget to get it so it leaves us very little in the kitty do anything but decorate for now.

We have now secured the farm also and so come 15 May we will be the proud owners of 2 properties in NB.

So we will be returning on a one way flight sometime in early May in time to close on the houses and get on with our lives.

For now I am trying to find the best company to fly the dog with and sort out everthing this end before we go.