Day 163: Backseat driver

...and just as well since there is no-one in the driver's seat.

We picked up our family wagon on Wednesday and Exile #2 drove it for the first time today and gave it her thumbs-up. Just as well really since there's no point in changing 'our' minds now. Because I made the eccentric (apparently) decision that the car (a 7-seat MPV or minivan depending on your continent) needed to have four disk-brakes we had to go a model and a couple of option-packs up in the range. Let me pause for a European moment - a people-carrier with drum-brakes? Can you believe it? Can you buy such a thing in the UK I wonder? Anyway, the result of this upgrade is that we have all sorts of little features that I would never have been willing to pay extra for but am very happy to have. Exile #2 will, I'm sure, never look back from power side-doors that you can open from the remote on the key-fob. Once you've got something like that you probably can't imagine coping with three children in a car park (parking-lot) without it. As for the other features, I mean to get to grips with them all during this weekend.

Apart from that, we have pre-move work to do. Buying a lawnmower, fitting a few key window-blinds, buying a bed and working out some furniture layouts. I doubt we'll get it all done, but we can try.