Monday, Sept. 19 - Moving Day is finally here!

We are finally leaving the mission home and moving to:While the mission home is in the province of Quebec,... Cornwall is in the province of:We have a lovely apt. in a row of four-plexes only 1/2 block down the street from our church bldg. There are two apts. on the bottom and 2 apts. on the top...separated by the stairway up the middle.... and, of course.... we are on the 2nd level - left hand side as you look at our building.You can get a better idea of what the building looks like by looking at the building next door-which doesn't have any huge trees in front.Elder Giles & Elder Levitre - the office missionaries - rented a truck to move the furniture that they had for us in the storage unit. Elder & Sister Davis also came & helped. Plus 2 missionaries from Montreal, & our two Elders from Hawkesbury. We had plenty of people for the few pieces of furniture we moved. (this was cake compared with the move from Calif. to Utah! ) Thought you might like to see the inside as well. (I'm actually doing this so that I can keep a visual record on the blog so that at the end of our mission we can use all the pictures to make a book for us to keep reminding us of our mission... not to brag that we ended up with a very nice apt.) This is as you walk in the front door into the living room. You can see the dining room around the corner.The doorway to the kitchen is just out of the picture on the left. Here is the view from behind the couch, standing in the dining area:Here is the wall opposite the windows in the Living room - gotta have the family up on the wall. The doorway to the kitchen is on the right. Hallway back to bedrooms is on left. Here's the Dining Room. Our wonderful Relief Society Pres. found us the table & chairs and also loaned us the rocker & ottoman that are in the living room.Behind the curtain is a sliding glass door - with a small balcony. Here's our view:Opposite the sliding glass door is a funky little pass-through window from the dining room into the kitchen. (see my cute little pumpkins? Gotta have that holiday decor... right?)Here's the kitchen:Directly opposite of the the front door as you come in is this little half-bath..Next door down the hallway is the main bathroom. It's nice because it has the door into the hallway, but also has a pocket door into our bedroom. Here's a couple of shots of our bedroom. I left the closet door open so you could see that we have a big roomy closet.

Across the hall is the laundry. This is wonderful, because most of the apts. we looked at all had one set of machines, usually in the basement, always coin operated. The going price here is about $2.00 for 1 washer load and $2.00 for 1 dryer load. Even the landlord said we don't usually put washers & dryers in the units, but some previous tennant left them, so we are leaving them for you to use. We really feel blessed to have them.

The 2nd bedroom we are using for a study. Roger, ever the gentleman, let me have the desk and he took the table we bought at Costco! And, of course, we had to show you some of our wall-decor.

And there you have it! Our home away from home for the next 18 months. We feel very lucky to have it. Come on up to Canada for a visit anytime!