New Car

Laura was very excited about getting our old Honda Civic now that we had a new Honda CRV.  When I gave her the keys to the car, she got in and found that the key wouldn't work.  I didn't know what the problem was until I realized I had given the keys to my Toyota Yaris by accident.

New Hamburger

We were unpacking the UHaul truck the morning after Laura arrived and Laura was telling me about how her and Julia were clearing out the storage unit and eating hamburgers from McDonalds.  Then we noticed a part of a hamburger bun on the back bumper of the truck.  I guess Julia had dropped some of her hamburger while they were eating in the dark and part of the bun had made it for the whole trip to New Hamburg.

Mom Mad

Laura asked Leroy if he thought she should knock on the door and try to see inside the old house.  Leroy said why not, she has nothing to lose?  So they knocked on the door and it took a long time for the owner to answer.  He was not happy about Laura's idea about seeing the house but then they got talking and found out that she was an artist and he was an animator.  So he let her in.  The house was a mess.  His wife and children were away and he was renovating the house.  It was taking him forever to complete the renovations.  The hallway was a mess and there was no furniture in the living room, dining room or family room and there were no curtains.  The basement looked just the same.  The bedrooms looked pretty much the same as we left them but not the way Laura left hers.  The new owner was very proud of the new shower stall that he had put in the en suite bathroom off the master bedroom.  When Laura showed Barb the picture of it, Barb was furious.  We had just put in a new shower stall before we sold the house.  It cost us $5000.  We hardly even got to use it ourselves before we moved out.  Barb could see that some of the house needed renovating but she thought that doing the shower stall first was just stupid.

Basketball Hoop

Laura surprised us with pictures of our old house in Barrhaven.  She went to see it when she was in Ottawa and met our old neighbour Leroy.  He didn't recognize her at first but then he realized that it was Laura and was very friendly.  Laura wanted to look in the backyard from Leroy's house.  So she went into the backyard and looked at her old backyard and was happy to see that the basketball hoop was still there.  Apparently, the new owner had tried to get the basketball hoop out of the ground and couldn't do it.  I must have put it in there really good.

Instagram

Laura was mad at me for not posting a picture of myself on Instagram with my FASTPTCH license plates because Barb had posted a picture of herself with her PICKLEBL license plates.  I don't really know how to post on Instagram yet.  I am still an old fogey who only knows Facebook.

8 Heather Place

Laura drove the UHaul truck from Ottawa and she texted us when she was half way.  She was driving very late at night.  So we just went to bed and left the front door open for her to come in when she arrived.  When she got to Toronto, she found out that the 401 Express lanes were closed and got on the 401 Collectors.  Then she took an off ramp and drove around the suburbs of Toronto.  She just thought her GPS was confused until she arrived at 8 Heather Place in Toronto.  She had to reset her GPS to find our 8 Heather Place in New Hamburg.

Register

Barb got her PICKLEBL license plates and put them on her car and had to go to Service Ontario to register them and turn in her old license plates.  I got my FASTPTCH license plates and went to Service Ontario later.  I took off my old license plates and went in.  I had the wrong papers with me and they said I had to bring in my ownership papers. So I walked across the parking lot and looked in the glove department for the ownership papers.  Then when I went back with my ownership papers, they said I needed my insurance papers.  I said why didn't you tell me that before.  So I walked back to my car and got my insurance papers and came back and finally got my license plates approved and put them on my car.