Planes - Curt booked our flight and accommodations for Florida today!!! Our travel plans are going to be a little different this year then they have been in the past. For the past two years, we've done two trips each winter - but, this year we're going to do Florida in January and then save up for a BIG trip in April (there's still a lot of work to be done, but we're hoping to go to Kenya!). You may be wondering why/how we're able to go to Florida when we hope to do such a big trip a few months later. Well, our trip to Florida is part of a timeshare thing; so, if we do the week in Florida, the timeshare company will then give us a week at another one of their locations - anywhere in the world! So, we're hoping to use that week while we're in Kenya. Hopefully we can get all our ducks in a row and make all of this work :)
Trains - I actually don't have any train related news, but it made for a catchy title :) I do have some baby news though...
First, Curt's brother and his wife did the big gender reveal today. I posted about them back in August, and mentioned that they already have four boys, and are expecting their fifth baby in March. Well, they are going to have their own little hockey team soon...baby number five is a BOY!
And, our good friends, Ike and Jeanette (finally) had their baby today (I had to put that 'finally' in there because the baby was due on Oct. 15th and poor Jeanette was getting really tired of waiting)! They had a boy too, which we knew months ago...they had his name picked out months ago too, but kept that a secret until today. His name is Grayson James, isn't that cute!?! For those of you who know Jeanette, you know she's tiny...so, you're going to find this hard to believe, but Grayson was 10lbs 6oz!!! Mom and baby are doing well, but Jeanette will need a little extra recovery time because she ended up having a C-section. We haven't had a chance to talk to Ike or Jeanette yet, so we don't have any other details, what we know came from Facebook.
Oh, and I don't think I posted about this at the time, but our other close friends, Kevin and Susannah, had their second child last week. They had a boy too, Cole Jacob was born on October 13th. Curt and I are hoping to fit in a visit with these guys this weekend, but we're all kinda busy, so it may not work out. If not, hopefully soon.
So that's a lot of baby news - a lot of BOY baby news! And baby news is more exciting then train news, right?!?!
Automobiles - We SOLD our car today! Well, Curt sold it, and it's been in the works for awhile, but it was finalized today. Last week, Curt came across a Ford Ranger that he liked on Kijiji...he went to see it, and discovered that the guy selling it was looking to replace it with a small car...in order to buy the truck, Curt had to sell his small car. Do you see where this is going?!?! Yup, they ended up trading vehicles! It wasn't an even trade, the truck is newer/nicer and has fewer km's, so Curt just paid a portion of the asking price and the guy ended up getting money and a car for his truck!
This was actually my car, I bought it before we were married. But, when we got our Jeep, Curt let me drive the Jeep and he graciously started driving the car...he's good to me! I'm not really sad to see it go though, we put a lot of kilometers on that car - back and forth from Acton to Belleville on weekends while Curt and I were dating, a two hour work commute the year I worked at a high school AND two trips to and from Myrtle Beach - so, it was time to get rid of it.
The car, sitting outside the license bureau, all ready to be sold. This is actually the cars good side - there is a hole in the front bumper on the other side! Curt drove into the arm of a forklift...apparently it was buried in snow, or something like that?!?!
Curt is more of a truck guy anyway - this is his third Ford Ranger! And by far the nicest, which I'm very thankful for.
He looks proud, doesn't he?!?
See what I mean about all the excitement coming today!
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