This time last week, we were waking up and having breakfast on our flight home from Vancouver.
Jetlag hit us pretty hard for the first couple of nights back at home, but we’ve also had to deal with how much we miss being in Vancouver. To be honest, the possibility of moving had taken a bit of a back seat – both of our jobs are going really well, we’re planning the wedding etc. However, this trip seems to have reignited our motivation and we’re now properly planning again.
Obviously, there are some important practicalities to deal with – the biggest one being saving up enough money to have a safety net. Even though we hope we’d be able to get decent jobs in Vancouver, we’d like to have the resources to be able to live without salaries for a few months, as well as actually having the cash to pay for moving!
Unfortunately, my PR card didn’t arrive while we were out there – I’m going to give the CIC a couple of weeks, then phone them again.
When we arrived at Vancouver Airport, we headed for the “Canadian Residents” line, just like the immigration officer told me in November. However, the guy at the desk said that I actually should have applied for a travel document, as I don’t have a PR card yet. I cringed a bit and waited for him to tell us off and/or send us back into the HUGE immigration line for international passports, but he just waved us through. I don’t think they’d do that in Britain or America!
