Here’s another blog post from Canada! After I told you that we started cleaning our condo since saturday no really big things happened here.

Yesterday, Tuesday, Sander had a day of home office because a technician from Rogers (our Cable TV, Internet and Wireless provider)  was coming to our condo to install the Cable TV and the internet connection. The appointment was planned somewhere between 12 am and 2 pm. Sander and I arrived at our condo around 9:30 am and while Sander was working I was cleaning the condo and doing the laundry. Did I already told you how happy I am that I have a washing machine and dryer again? I am so happy to do the laundry whenever I want to do it.

We did not have breakfast yet, so I went down to “our” Starbucks (it is in our building) to get a Pumpkin Spiced Latte for Sander and for me a Salted Caramel Mocha and off course something to eat as well.

Time went by and soon the technician from Rogers arrived and one hour or so later we were online and able to watch television. To celebrate that we were online we did various FaceTime calls with the family to give them all the grand tour in our condo and off course show them our view!

Today also our DVD/Blu-Ray player arrived. We ordered it online and in the afternoon we received an e-mail from the concierge that the package had been delivered and that we could pick it up downstairs. It is a player that can both play DVD’s/Blu-Ray’s from Europe and North America. We needed something like that because of our somewhat big DVD/Blu-Ray collection. Sander installed it and it works perfect.

In the evening we had a delicious dinner at The Keg, which is a steakhouse (also in our building). Sander order steak and shrimp and I ordered the salmon. We also shortly met with our neighbours (Martin and Sabrina) from the other building on Parking Deck 4 to exchange Suzy. They would pick her up later at our condo.

On Wednesday I completed the cleaning-process in our condo and everything is now ready to move in. I also received a new iron and a water boiler which we both ordered online.

Tomorrow our bed will be delivered in the morning. I hope everything is going to be OK, because this is the first time I needed to book the service elevator so that they can bring up the mattresses up. You will find out if everything went well as soon as I write a new blog post 🙂

In our last blog post we told you about getting the keys to our condo on friday evening. Well on Saturday it was time to do some serious shopping and start cleaning our condo.

After we woke up and got our Starbucks we drove to the nearest Best Buy because we needed a new TV. Best Buy you can compare to MediaMarkt in Europe. Sander off course already did his homework and knew which TV he wanted, but the service at this Best Buy was so bad, that we left the store after 30 minutes to drive to Future Shop. The service here was great and Shaq got us everything we needed and Sander could also negotiate about the price. We left the store with a 55″ Sony TV and a TV stand to put the TV on. On Monday Sander can pick up the Sonos Playbar we also bought, unfortunately this item was not in stock this weekend.

With the TV and the TV stand in our car we drove to our condo at Yonge and Eglinton. Together we brought the TV up to our condo and then left to do some more shopping at Metro. Metro is a store like Walmart where you can buy everything you need and this store is open 24/7. I already made a list of thing we needed but it still was quite challenging to find all the cleaning stuff, because off course everything is different and has different names. But at the end we found everything we needed and we could start cleaning the condo.

While I was starting to clean the kitchen Sander started to unpack the TV and install the TV stand. They always say “time flies when you’re having fun”, but the time was really flying, although cleaning is not my biggest hobby. But in a new condo with a view like we have, it is not too bad.

On our way back to the hotel we went to Walmart and bought al lot of other stuff we did not find at the Metro for the next day. We had a late night dinner at the hotel and soon after that we went to sleep.

On Sunday, after we had a FaceTime call with our little nephew Jop, we drove directly to our condo to continue the cleaning. I even got to do my first load of laundry today. Furthermore there is not much interesting to tell about cleaning, because that is practically all we did today.

Tomorrow for Sander is a new work-week starting and I am going to continue organizing our condo. I’ll keep you posted!!!