Sunday to Thursday... a lot has happened!

Sunday, we took the ferry from Vancouver to our new home. I took an earlier ferry than the boys and drove to the beachfront apartment we are renting. I hadn't been able to reach the owners and, of course, nobody was home when I got there... So I found a pay phone (no cell phone yet...) and called Gerry's friends, Robin and Damaris, to ask if I could leave their number with our landlords for whenever they got my message and to see if they had heard from Gerry yet - no of course they hadn't. So I was homeless and all alone on my deserted island...
Damaris invited me for tea and when I got there, Gerry and Tattoo (aka Michel) had just arrived and our landlords were on the phone to say they were home!! We emptied the trailer and headed to our new home to unpack and get ready for the big day - Day one of construction...


That night Gerry was like a kid on Christmas Eve - didn't sleep all night and was up at 5AM, ready to go!!
I stayed in bed and let them go...
My morning, as all my mornings so far, consisted of cleaning the supper dishes and making lunch so I can transport it to two very hungry workers. I've never seen anyone eat so much. So far I've spent around $250 on food and we haven't been here a week yet!
Before heading to the lot, I had to find us some cellphones so we could actually start calling people to come build our house. Telus was useless and Rogers didn't have the phones I wanted in stock (welcome to Parksville - sort of like trying to find something in Wakefield...). Off to Nanaimo for what will be a daily drive it seems, if I want to find anything. Found the phones - Virgin, but they needed to be activated. Now I can do that with a payphone but it says on the package that if I activate on the Internet I get $20 credit for each phone - Bonus! Now I need the Internet...
I knew from the night before that the Internet wasn't working at the apartment so now I have to find somewhere, in Parksville, that has Internet - The Library! I get to the Library and pay (because I can get a library card because I have nothing that says I'm a BC resident) and get to the computer only to learn that I can't activate the damn phone unless it's charged. I give up!
I finally get to the lot, two hungry freaks waiting for me (ok, it was 3PM but what can I say, I was busy getting nowhere)
When I got to the lot I was very surprised to see he excavator guy hard at work.

Tuesday and part of Wednesday was excavation and Wednesday afternoon they started getting the forms ready.

Thursday, we woke up (well they woke up) to pouring rain and almost hurricane winds (ok I'm exagerating a bit). The boys left dressed in their rain gear. I get a call around 8AM - some of the rain gear apparently isn't. So I'm off to Nanaimo again (oh I forgot to mention Tuesday and Wednesday's Nanaimo trips to - Tuesday, I already forget what I went there for, but Wednesday I was on a trek to find the very expensive BC building code. I gave up on that because I only found the one in hardcover and that was even more expensive).
Before Nanaimo, I bring the lunch - they look so pitiful working in the pouring rain it makes me want to go back to bed...
So I get the rain gear (again I should have given up - I got the wrong boots and I don't know about the coats yet, we'll see what they say), a heater and some rubber boots for me and back to the lot. Even with all that rain they still managed to get almost all the forms for the footings done. I'm very amazed by the hard work that's going on. At least some of us are being productive... Ok I'm off to make supper, they'll be home soon.