Finally, Hubby becomes Vietnamese born Canadian

Congratulation!!! On April 20,2011, Hubby is officially Vietnamese born Canadian. He was so lazy to apply for a citizenship. As his wife, I had to PUSH him working on that almost every day since August 2009 (and now he complains that I am talking too much, I am talkative ........Hum~)

He faced with many difficulties during the process of becoming Canadian. First of all, he was so lazy to work on the application. He wasted his time a lot before actually filling the form and paying for the fee in August 2009. Then, he got a letter from Citizenship and Immigration of Canada to take his finger prints (as his name is same as someone's else name). Alright, he had to wait for another couple months to wait for the clearance.

After that, he was called for the test. As he didn't have one of his old Vietnamese passport which is on the list of required documents on the day of the test, he had to ask Dad to send an email to his cousin living in Vietnam to fax that old passport to him. Ms. Thao, his cousin, did a very good job. As soon as she got an email from Dad, she faxed them to Dad and hubby right away (although she had to do it twice as the first one wasn't in good quality printing at all).

Then, I had to blame on hubby again. He was lazy again again.............2 months later, he faxed that passport to Immigration Canada. Unfortunately, they asked him to re-fax all the pages, including the plain pages of the old passport. Ok........Sigh ~. This time, I had to mail them to Immigration Canada to make sure the passport copy go to the right place and reach the right person and in the fastest period of time.

Almost another 2 months later, Hubby called to check with Immigration Canada, he was told that his application was in process. BUT he forgot to confirm with them that they already receive his old passport. Then he had to call them in the 3 weeks after to confirm.

And now, FINALLY he got a letter to attend to the Oath ceremony on 20.04.2011.

The time written on the letter was 8:30AM. But we waited more than an hour for the actual ceremony to take place (due to the paper works, not only for us, but also for all the people who attend the ceremony on that day). And the ceremony only took a hour. :(
I decided to take more pictures for Hubby to compensate for the time and the energy we spent.

Once again, congratulation !!! And Hubby is officially able to vote for the election coming in May.

Montreal trip with Parents-in-law April 02, 03 / 2011

It was a such great trip with Parents-in-law since they came to Canada last August. Parents were working hard on "nanny jobs", then it was their turn to have two day off. Hehehe :D

We left home early on April 02 and drove straight to Montreal. It was a 2 hour drive, hence, parents wouldn't be too tired.

Right after we were in Montreal, we stopped by the church on the way to Mont Royal Mountain. The church is HUGE and nice. Since Dad has came to Nortre Dame Church, he thinks this church is not nicer as the Nortre Dame one.


The following pictures were taken outside the church, inside the church and also on the balcony of the church.

We spent more than 2 hours to check out every single angle of the church, and then we all were so hungry. As I were googling before the trip, I asked hubby to drive us to one of the best Vietnamese restaurant named Pho Tay Ho. Each of us had one great bowl of Pho, and Hubby and Dad shared Fried Ice-cream together.:D

Now, we were so FULL. We headed to the hotel for a nap. I and Mom were planning for a facial and spa therapy, but we didn't book appointment before, we had to wait for the next day at 9:30AM. :(

After a short nap, we drove to Old Montreal and walked around for some nice pictures (photo time again :D, I love taking pictures, yeah.........)

And it was dinner time again. We were about to have dinner at the Key, but the waiter asked us to wait an hour for a table. Hichic........I couldn't wait for that long. Therefore, we had to walk all the way down to the end of the town and were attracted by a great deal for dinner at one restaurant. Here are what we had for our dinner

After dinner, we went to one place that we couldn't tell you where we went, only us knew that place. Hehehe :D. And after a long day, we all had a good night. It was great.

In the next day, we had lunch with our friends who came from Winnipeg and are currently living in Montreal. We also went to visit Parents' friends who live in Montreal as well on the way home. We had a great meeting with them, as Parents could talk and share with them many stories about the past and current lives.

Overall, Hubby and I were happy as Parents enjoyed the trip. We wish we could have more time off to take Parents to as many places as we could. We are trying our best to do that. Let's wait for the next episode ;)

Valentine 14.02.2011

Valentine day happened to be Monday this year; not much time to prepare things. Luckily I've bought gifts for hubby couple of days earlier.

I got home at 3 PM after my first clinical section. Immediately I headed on to the Internet to find out different ways to make a romantic dinner at home, I decided to go with traditional meal of steak, salad and garlic breads. Then another bus trip out to the market to get those items. I also bought one bottle of Coke in lieu of wine (I don't like alcohol).

8:30 PM: finally got home (bus was late !). Hubby would be home in less than an hour; I had to be super fast. My sister helped me to prepare the salad; I marinated the steak and baked the garlic breads.

9:20 PM: I stood inside the house and looked out of the door to wait for hubby to come home. As soon as I saw his car, I turned off all the house lights (downstairs only). Hubby drove the car into the garage, then opened the side door. I almost stopped breathing to hear his foot steps. And suddenly I screamed to surprise Hubby (of course I had a camera on at the time, but I couldn't get any nice picture due to the lack of light).

Hubby was truly surprised. Hehehe ~. Then he quickly saw the gifts I bought for him, and he opened the bag right away and try them out. :D

I've got some gifts from Hubby also. ;)

Overall, we had a great dinner with home-made steak, mixed salad, and garlic breads. At least Hubby was surprised (steak wasn't expected for dinner :)

P.S: On Sunday, a day before Valentine, we had a small dinner with Parents-in-law and sister. We've got two pair "Gloves for lovers" as gifts for Parents-in-law, one pair of gloves for sister also.