New Addition to the Family

IN GOOD OL' American fashion, we are a two-car family again. After 4 1/2 months of living with one car, we broke down and bought a second car. Having one car was working, but it got tricky if the weather was bad since Kerri had to walk the kids to school every day. [Note: in case I haven't mentioned it, 'walking the kids to school' sometimes requires Kerri to make 4 round-trips to the school -- mainly because the the kids come home for lunch, thanks to that oh-so-French 2 hour lunch break they have. At 2km per round trip, that's 8km per day. She didn't mind the walking unless, of course, the rains and high winds were present.]

But back to the car. I bought a VW Golf 3 GTI 2.0 (I don't know much about cars so I don't know what anything really means after 'VW Golf'). It's a pretty old car with fairly high mileage but it looks good, runs well, and the price was right. It has a huge new Sony stereo system with speakers in the back window -- a system that is way too powerful for my needs but, hey, it came with the car, right? Actually, it is kind of fun to drive down the road and blast Dream Theater at excesively high decibals (you know, when I'm not listening to Tristan and Isolde). But the bottom line is that it is nice to have a second car. Not very European of us, but convenient to be sure.


How do you like it? I'll give you a nice 'shout out' if you can guess the year by looking at the photo.

[obscure reference guide: Tristan and Isolde]
CJS