So much to write about! I'll start with our home.

Why is it when there are so many things to write about, there isn't any time to write? I will try over the next couple of days to make up for it, to write about everything, and to encourage Mike to write too!

Our world has now, officially, turned upside down. We have officially moved to Whitehorse.

For me, Mike and Maui, our long weekend has been spent unpacking boxes. The process of unpacking, of rediscovering what we randomly determined was valuable - and what we irrationally felt was not, has been humbling. More shelves would have been beneficial, it

would also have helped had we owned a dresser or any normal sized table. Our living room-dining room has a couch, 7 chairs, 3 stools and nothing but a couple of side tables.

I have no idea where we will store all of our now empty luggage and tupperware containers. I expect that anyone who

comes to visit us will share their room with our many tents and tupperwares of camping stuff. My beautiful suits look lovely in

the closet where they will inevitably do little but collect dust with several equally beautiful pairs of shoes. I lost the battle and we now own a brand new microwave

which sits lovingly in our living room.

Slowly, very, very slowly, our stuff has resurfaced. Our couch, our chairs, our salt

and pepper shakers, our dishes - and yet our new home does not resemble our "Ottawa home" in any real way. I think we have decided this is a good thing. We need to not make that comparison if we are going to give it a real shot here.