New whip!

On Friday, Brian, Uncle Graeme, and myself headed out to go car shopping. There were a few we had selected to go look at and we were excited because we didn't know whether or not we would be the owners of a new (to us) car by the end of the day! We certainly miss our old car, the Honda Civic named "Celeste", but we know she's in good hands now with my brother-in-law Michael.

Turns out, we found a good one! After lots of questions, navigating about, and some deliberation, we settled on one. Many thanks go out to my Uncle Graeme, who is a whiz at getting us around the big city of Auckland (remember, driving on the LEFT side of the road, mind you), and who knows his stuff about cars, making sure we don't get swindled. We would have been lost without him (literally and figuratively).

    Our trip to the New Zealand version of the DMV rendered us the all-important "licence plate"...

    ...and after some paperwork and fees, tada! Our new and beautiful 2005 Honda Fit, with about 50,000 kilometers on it (which is about 30,000 miles). We named him "Yousaf" (pronounced like "Joseph" but Y instead of a J), after the friendly and helpful guy we bought him from. Just the car we were looking for to get us around town without damaging the environment or the wallet too much!

 Notice anything different? Clue: we are going to have to get used to looking over our left shoulder when backing up! We are so pumped about this car, and are excited for our next few years driving it!