First impressions

Just some quick comments after a few days here...

1. Jo and I are getting used to driving on the wrong side of the road :-). Thank god we have a talking GPS unit in the hire car, although once we get used to the street layout it wont be too bad, mostly it's a huge grid.
2. The temporary apartment we are in is not very good, I am trying to arrange a nicer one and if I can get one we will move in there on Saturday.
3. We have seen a couple of houses but one stands out from the rest. It's in our budget, is fully furnished (really nice furniture), backs onto the Credit River (which has a nature reserve either side of it with walking trails etc), is fairly close to a new elementary school and is very nice to look at (stylish). The owner is currently in it so we have to confirm that we want it and then wait a week or so before we can move in (she has to move out).
4. The weather has been variable, generally high humidity, but it rained yesterday (was the end of Hurricane Rita coming up from Texas) and today it's beautiful, about 22 degrees and blue skies. The locals tell us that winter is damn cold but it's not as bad as 30 years ago, in fact it gets milder each year... global warming...
5. We haven't touched base with Max or the rest of the Rhodes/Gordon side of the family yet, we've been too busy to really think about much else but housing, schools and work. Just finding supermarkets and other basic stuff has been time consuming.
6. Sleeping has been a bit of a problem, a combination of jet-lag and sickness (Abbie and I are still not over our colds). I know that Jo is very tired, poor girl.
7. The flight was very nice, Jasmine ate her way almost all the way through a smoked salmon salad, that girl will try anything when it comes to food! We had a nervous few moments in Los Angles when we had to transfer from Qantas to the American Airlines flight to Toronto, almost missed the plane (Qantas was 1 hours late into LA).
8. Haven't had any real fun yet, just getting by and finding our legs, but hoping to get to Niagara Falls on the weekend.