Living the dream ;)

Just a quick one for now, but I'll add some more tomorrow. We got another car today and we've really done the American thing and bought an SUV.

This is not the actual car as it was dark by the time we got home, but this is the car! It's a Mitsubishi Endeavor with a 3.8l V6 engine, 4WD, 5 seats and a huge boot. It's probably the same size as something like a Jeep Grand Cherokee and is very nice. We got yet another bargain too - now is definitely a good time to be buying used cars in the US...!

Driving it feels like you are sitting on the roof of a normal car, and it makes the Audi feel like a low slung sports car, but it will certainly be practical for trips to the mountains and getting all the kids stuff in it. I'll post more tomorrow when I'm able to take some pics in the daylight.

We are all well. We've been mostly busy looking at cars this weekend but did go to see one in Santa Cruz so got to have a nice drive over the mountains down to the coast. Now we have the second car, it means that Kate, Louis and Chloe will be able to get out and about and start doing things. All she needs to do now is pass her written driving test so we can get her insured, and she'll be off! We'll try to get that done this week.

We've also just checked on the status of our container and the ship arrived in Oakland at 6pm this evening, so hopefully it won't be long until we have our stuff back. I spoke to the move people, and they said that as long as our container wasn't selected for random review by customs, it should be with us by the middle to end of this week. It would be very cool if that's the case!

Anyway, more to come soon. Hope you are all well.