HURRY UP AND WAIT !!!!

We are back to playing the waiting game.
Our lawyer has informed us that even though we were approved for residency on March 10th, the paper work has not yet  been sent to the Ecuadorian Consolate in Vancouver. No idea of when it will happen......
We are  waiting for a call to see if we can just go to Ecuador and catch up with our Visa's there or if we have to stay here and wait for them.
If we can't go there, I think we will go sit on a beach in Mexico for a week.................

Thursday, April 5th

Still no idea of what our time frame will be.
Spoke with the EC Consul yesterday and he mentioned that the EC government offices would not be doing much work for the next two weeks, as this is Semana Sante, (Holy Week) and next week is Carnvale in Quito.
 Practicing patience is wearing thin...........................

April Snow

We woke up to a light snowfall this morning.
The stress of not knowing when our paperwork will get here from Ecuador, so that we can leave, is getting to me.
But, it is a chance for me to practice patience.......not one of my better traits.......
and something I know I will need in Ecuador.
One of the main reasons for getting out of here and moving to Ecuador is to live a more relaxed and simpler life style.....................

Good bye House

It's 4:40 Monday afternoon.

Me, the dog, four suitcases, and the laptop are all that is left in the house.

I'm sitting here on the floor by the fireplace drinking a bottle of beer I found when I did the last refridgerator wipe down.

Doug has made the last run to put a few items into storage at his Mom's.
When he gets back, we will head to his sister's to stay untill our paperwork makes it to the Ecuador Consulate in Richmond.
Hopefully that will be in the nrext 48 hours or so.

Then, we get a flight and head to Quito.

Is this real!???

4 more nights in our house

Wow.....that was fast.

Both vehicles and all our funishings have been sold.
New owners get the house on Monday.

The only thing holding us back after that is waiting for the Ecuadorian consolate in Vancouver to recieve the paperwork from Ecuador. They say 10-14 days from the original approval date, which would be as early as Tuesday,but, I don't expect things to be that quick. Hope it's soon. Couch surfing will get old real fast.

Exciting!

Residecy Approved!

It's official......we are now legal residents of Ecuador!
Within two weeks the visas will arrive at the Ecuadorian Consolate in Vancouver and we will get our passports stamped and be on our way.

The hurry up and wait game is over.

We have gone from being too far ahead of ourselves to wondering how we will get everything done in the next 20 days or so...........
Doug finishes work on Thursday.
We will start the BIG garage sale on Saturday.
We surrender the house on the 27th.............
Have to sell the  car and truck.....
......pack the two crates and get them into storage...........get the dog certfied to travel........oh yeah.... better start looking for air fare......oh my......
I am so excited....and frightened.....and everything in between!

Leap Snow?

What??.....Mother Nature didn't know what to do with an extra day?
It's not really February and not quite March....so hey..... send out this left over snow!

Want it or need it?....That is the question.

We have decided to splurge on shipping one crate via Air cargo.
The crate will include Doug's golf clubs and my sewing machine.
After that, it's all a matter of "need" it or "wan"t it.
Now my sorting and sifting has  a new categorey. "Things I would like to keep."  I can already see that this categorey is going to have to be subdivided, as I have already exceeded my "share" of the crate. This may have created mote problems than we bargained for! Once you make the decision to keep some things, it gets harder to choose what to keep........ easier, perhaps, not to ship at all?