Day 2- Monday = Work Day!!!

After a Tim Hortons Breakfast, we headed over to the Matthew house to start working around 9. We unloaded all the vans, Betsy and Myself checked out the kitchen situation, and off to the store we went. The rest of the gang got busy cleaning out/organizing sheds, tearing out a wall in the first bedroom upstairs to later put up new dry wall, and after lunch, we started painting. All in all we got a lot of work done today yet there is a lot left to do.

Now, if I learned anything today, it was that shopping in Canada is not like shopping in the United States. First, lets start with the shopping cards at the grocery store called No Frills: YOU HAVE TO PAY! yup that's right, all the stopping carts are chained together and in order to get a cart you must insert a quarter to unlock it from the next cart! well this just blew our mind right from the get go.. so what did we do, we found a straggler in the parking lot because we had no canadian money. Second, Shopping can be a real pain when it comes to converting measurements. If there are two different languages on EVERY item in the store, I would assume there would be two different measurements. HA! wishful thinking i know! Here are a few things we had trouble finding: Shredded cheddar cheese, deli meat in a decent amount, apparently chicken and turkey aren't very common here; roast beef and ham are the cheapest!

we are headin to the beach now.. there is MUCH MORE TO COME LATER.... SO STAY TUNED!