Man, it’s been a crazy few days. It’s late, so you just get the short version.
On Saturday, we met up with fuzzytoedcollie and went to a flyball tournament. Great company, lots of dogs, lots of barking in an enclosed space, but a whole lot of fun. Got to pet da woofies, too – always a Good Thing. Fuzzytoes took some video of the fun, as well (1.85 Mb).
Sunday I cooked up a mess of chicken breasts and then we headed over to Thomas and Sherry’s for gaming and made chicken burritos. Yummy. Gaming was fun and productive, so much so that we’re doing it again next Sunday.
Monday was an annoying exercise in futility. Between going round and round trying to get the paperwork from my bank to the insurance company so they could pay us for totaling the Saturn and trying to work with the car dealership to line up financing, I couldn’t really concentrate on anything. A distracting, frustrating day.
Today was shaping up to be much the same, when suddenly everything fell into place. The bank got the fax to the insurance agency, the insurance agency had the check ready for us, and the car dealership worked up an acceptable financing package for us. All of this in the span of an hour. Wow. And so it was that after about an hour and a half of signing papers and surprisingly little hassle from the salesmen we found ourselves the proud owners of a new 2003 Honda Element. Dan was so happy when we got it home that I just had to get some pictures of him with his new toy.
There’s a few other things of note, but I’ll post about those tomorrow. Now me go sleep.
I am so envious…
I really want one of those!!!
Re: I am so envious…
I’m still torn between whether it’s a cool, innovative design, or just really freakin’ ugly. It’s the perfect go-to-con car, though – we will not be hurting for space when we drive up in November.
I really like that interior… You just hose it off if it gets dirty… You do realize that you and Taki will now have to take up adventuresome, messy hobbies like mountain biking and hiking in mud. It was in the fine print in the contract you signed when you bought the car. 🙂
Oh man, I wondered what all that fine print of page 238 of the contract was. Guess we need to get some skateboards and listen to a lot of Blink 182, too.
I was amused when the salesman pointed out that, because of where all the wiring is located, the car is rated for six inches of water in the passenger compartment. Well, it’s nice to know I suppose…
Hyuuuge tracts of DOORS!
Neat!
Just the thing when we need to carry…uhhh…something. Man, makes me want to go out and buy something that comes in a really big box, just because we could carry it home.