Well hi there.....our second posting to our blog.....still cannot figure out how to put in pix...that will come I suppose...and in any case...we dont have any pix yet....I guess we could always put in some from Guatemala for the time being.....its now about  4 weeks away until we leave Canada for England and a week with the relatives there....we were just talking tonight about how nice it will be to land at heathrow...go to the hotel, have a shower and a nap and then go out to a pub and have a nice $16 pint of beer......hmmmmmm so much for the budget...

We have done our shots and are in the process of taking the two oral vaccinations that are needed....the last one we will do is Dukoral for Cholera and coincidentally travellers stomach ailments....and its good for about 3 months on that aspect.....bonus....

Our house is now rented to a nice family and we hope that will last for the entire 2 years we are away...Derrick is now struggling to find a place to store the jetta in nanaimo, so the kids can keep an eye on it....today we built some big shelves in the storage unit to hold the sofa, love seat and easy chairs up high....and we can pack the smaller furniture down below....what a pain this packing...we had a garage sale on Saturday and while Derrick worked on the dock...Lois sold the family heirlooms....we are worth a lot...ha ha....

so the prep is continuing and we will post again in a few days to bring you all up to speed on our boring transition from nort americanos to Africanos.......its all going to be a blast....

nuf said for now...more later, keep checking back with us....
derrick and lois