The Dream is ALIVE

Some background to the picutures we posted yesterday.

March 2005, Aidan and I purchased a condo. A new house to call our own and take the next step in life, a mortgage. Apparently building Condo's takes a long time because there are 74 miniature houses in the one major complex. The due date of completion was between February and June of 2006, the builders gave themselves a 5 month buffer.

As most people can attest to when building a house, it's actual completion date is always late. It's been even worse in the lower mainland with the shortage of trades people and the multitudes of houses, townhouses and condos going up all over. Gone are the days of driving past a farm or an empty field.

4.5 months past the June due date, our dream is coming alive. On Thursday September 28 Aidan and I did our walk through to note any deficiencies. We brought an army, My Aunty Beulah, Uncle Jeff, Cousin Greg, Aidan's boss Drew, Aidan and myself did the walk through. Most spots were merely cosmetic. We did however have a really ugly pipe sticking out of the celing; it was a sprinkler pipe with the sprinkler uninstalled. They'll fix that one for sure.

Our official move in date is October 26th, however we will be in Ontario for a long awaited vacation, so we'll move when we get back October 31 at 9 pm. Due to us renting and not getting back in time to move out and clean, Aidan and I will be moving our stuff into storage and then into our new place when we get back. The cats will stay at the house because it doesn't take much to move them out in time.

So please, now when you look at our last post and see the pictures of our walk through; envision that space only a couple of weeks away from being transformed into our house and a place for Aidan and I to call our own.