Last weekend we had a longer weekend because on Monday it was Canada Thanksgiving . After Sander registered us with Netflix the day before we spent most of the day relaxing and watching films and TV series on Netflix. We started to watch the first season of Homeland, which is a really great series.

In the evening we were invited at Martin and Sabrina’s place for Thanksgiving dinner and as we arrived at their condo it was smelling delicious and a little later we were enjoying a great Thanksgiving dinner with off course a Thanksgiving turkey.

On Tuesday I went for my first run here and it was not that easy after 2 months of no training and it was also more an exploring-run because it is off course a whole new area an I am going to search for the best roads to run. I planned to go to the Mount Pleasant Cemetery because that is where a lot of people go for running and biking. But only getting here is 2 kilometers and there you have 19 kilometer of drives along rolling hills and ponds. Because it was my first run since a long time I just ran 2,25 km and after that I walked around and back to our condo.

This week Sander and I started on car-shopping, because we are still driving a rental car. On Tuesday evening Sander picked me up at the Yorkdale Mall and from the we visited a Ford dealership in Yorkdale because Sander really liked the Ford Edge. But we were not impressed of the saleswomen here and they also did not have a really good deal. So we got some information and left. We decided to visit some more dealerships this week, maybe also from some other brands. To be continued…

Last weekend we ordered a Kitchenaid standing mixer. Since last year I really enjoy backing (cakes and cupcakes) and I am planning on learning more about backing and cooking as long as we are here, so a machine like this really comes in handy. And on Tuesday it finally arrived and on Wednesday I was going to look for some more equipment (because all my kitchen equipment is still on its way to Canada in the container) and the ingredients to bake my first pie here in Toronto and I decided it was going to be a Pumpkin Pie, a pie typically for this time of the year. So I got everything I needed and I started and 1,5 hour later my first “made in Canada” pie was ready. And although I do not like pumpkin pie, it tasted good and Sander thought it tasted good to and he loves pumpkin pie. And also, the most important thing, my Kitchenaid works great and the oven in our condo also. So I can’t wait for our container to arrive with all my kitchen stuff.

On Thursday it was going to be another day of car-shopping and today we were going to visit a Chevrolet dealership in Richmond Hill because we were interested in the Chevrolet Equinox and/or the GMC Terrain. A very nice salesman gave us really good advice and showed us both cars. We saw an interesting used car on the website of this dealership, but unfortunately did not arrive at the dealership yet so we needed to come back for this car to look at it. We also visited another dealership in this area to see the Ford Edge and the Ford Escape for us, with it was just not working for us.

Today we went back to the Chevrolet dealership to look at the car, a Chevrolet Equinox 2014, grey colored and we also made a test drive. After some negotiating (most of you now that Sander really likes negotiating) we got ourselves a really good deal on this car and we planned to pick it up next Saturday. In the meantime we have to organise some important thing before we actually can pick up the car next week. First we went to our bank to get a bank draft for the amount we’re buying the car for and after that Sander called with the insurance company to get an insurance for our car, which was not as easy as it looked like, but it all turned out OK after calling again to this company and speaking with somebody who actually had a clue what she was talking about. Not much later we received the confirmation of the insurance per email and we’re good to go and nothing stands in our way of picking up our car next week.

Today is also the Sander is traveling to Germany on business. His flight is this evening, which means I have the condo, including the remote control of the TV, all for myself…