This past week has been a whirlwind of running around western Switzerland. Wednesday we made our trip to Bern to pick up Martha and Sammy’s Slovenian passports from the embassy. We are now a family of dual citizens.  🙂  Our attempts to register our Swiss residency with the Canadian and American embassies were much less successful. For substantive matters of ending Canadian residency (read: those involving money), you have to deal with Revenue Canada directly and the embassy staff just tells you to go online. Also, the U.S. embassy in Switzerland only has its citizen services section open from 09:00-11:30, for which we were too late. After some nervous conversation with some very intimidating guards, we fled back to Neuchâtel resolved to deal with the Americans another day.
Friday was our big house hunting day. With a nice lady from our relocation agency as our guide and translator, we saw 10 apartments in 6 hours. We have a clear favourite, right in the city centre and a 5-minute walk to Martha’s tram to work, which he very much hope we get.
Yesterday, we drove around to various baby stores in neighbouring cities to scope out cribs and other furniture for Sammy, as well as to hunt for a new high chair. The minimalist IKEA high chair we bought 2 weeks ago is serviceable, but does not have a tray. Since Sammy’s ready to start making the big jump to finger food, we decided a chair with a tray was a necessity. Stay tuned for the inevitable humour-filled photos of Sammy trying to feed himself.
Speaking of photos, here are a few from last week that will have to do until I get pics of our more recent adventures uploaded: