This morning Lou got the phone call she'd been waiting ages for. It was confirmation that her nursing registration with the governing board out here (CRPNBC) is now complete, this meaning that she is now eligible to start her job. Lou will still need to sit a test but she has 2 years to complete this and it doesn't effect her being able to start working. Lou aims at getting the test done as soon as possible though to get it out of the way. The relief for both of us is hard to put in words, but lets just say we're delighted. The whole thing has been a bit of nightmare, she actually found the job after 3 weeks of searching and enquiring, got the work permit sorted after 12 weeks but the actual registration with the CRPNBC has been going on since last year! All the patience and perseverance has finally paid off, I'm sure without all the effort she's put into this we would still be sitting here probably years later twiddling our thumbs waiting for it to be sorted out. I'm not going to moan too much about it though, it's sorted now and we're very happy!

 This afternoon we were about to head downtown on the SkyTrain but when we got to the station at Joyce all the trains were stationary, doors open and the platforms were starting to get busy. Messages were being blurted out over the intercom system about long delays due to a police incident in Metrotown (two stops away). After waiting around for a few minutes wondering what was going we decided our journey was not worth the hassle / potential problems so we left the station and headed to the shops on Kingsway (one of the main roads) to get the things we needed (including $10 Ribena cordial!). When we got home we watched the news to find out more details, and we could see from our apartment larger crowds than normal were gathering outside of the station and at bus stops. Apparently some people who were also trying to get on the train at the same time as us didn't get to their destination until a couple of hours later so I'm glad we abandoned our plans. Now if only we had a car...