Ok then we have achieved car, and we've gone for a 2008 Escape, doesn't seem to be about in the UK, it's a compact SUV.
Basic spec:
Escape 2008 XLT
Tungsten Grey
2.3ltr 4 cylinder engine
A/C
6-CD
Specialist Bear Storage Compartment
But we still haven't actually got it......
The first one we ordered we were told was local, it turned out it was still at the factory in Virginia and there's a rail strike :P So we had to go back in Wednesday night to try and sort things out, this was after 5 HOURS on Saturday at one place.
Anyway, so we went back in, restated our spec and that we would not spend any more money.
Then these things happened:
1: Attempt to get us to change the colour we wanted, not happening.
2: The computer says there's one in the lot.
3: Computer's lying.
4: Find a similar one locally but it has a package and an updated CD thing, for only about another $1000 or so.
5: We remind the guy that we will not be spending any more money.
6: He goes to talk to his boss.
7: His boss comes out and says that the upgrades will only cost another $1000 or so.
8: We remind his boss that we will not be spending any more money.
9: Discussions between his boss and his bosses boss.
10: Victory is ours, they will give us the upgraded Escape for the original price. And they're paying for our rental car until our Escape arrives.
11: And relax!
So all in all, good news. But car insurance over here, VERY expensive, even starting to miss Norwich Union (not really happening). It will cost us around $1400 to insure it, some places wanted $3300!
And the other biggish thing is we have our container of house stuff cleared through customs, that was easy, took our forms to customs when the container arrived. Signed stuff, photocopied stuff, job done. They didn't even check for Jacqui's enormous colection of erotic kitchenware, I was shocked.
I've started looking for work locally - we spoke to a couple of mortgage people and over here the joint income effects what you can get so the life of leisure may be a thing of the past sooner than expected.
Another British couple have turned up over here, the guy Steve is working at ISL, same company as Jacqui, his wife Natalie is looking at college courses. We've been over for a meal with them and we're off to a pub on Whyte Ave Saturday and probably a film on Sunday.
BF signing off.
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Bear storage option could be useful. Are you allowed to take them home and eat them if you knock one over?
Cheers for letting me know which pub it was by which street as means i can really place it now.
Bear storage is important, more a safety thing as bear don't have to wear seatbelts in Canada, unlike here in the UK. So in an accident a even a small bear, such as a Sun Bear (smallest species of bear), the rattle around and can collide with other object (maybe another bear or a picnic baskey) with the force of a charging Moose.
Also than can be refigerated to aid in the cryopreservation of bears.
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