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New car

W e got our selves a car... finally. It came to the dealer last week and we could have picked it up anytime between now and May 20th. Believe it or not it literally mean we had to pick it up NOW. We've got so many things happening the next two weeks that we could have only squeezed it in otherwise.
Anyway, last week we busied ourselves by getting an insurance and parking. Finding a spot to park our car was fairly easy. However, getting insurance was a bit of a pain. I'm not going into details here, but it comes down to dealing with call centers and being transferred from one phone to another phone a lot. I think pretty much everyone has been there.
So getting back to the new car. We went all the way to Oakville to pick it up. On the train there it took us about 40min to get there; just to get an idea of the distance. There is a Volvo location closer by, but we found the staff in Oakville the most competent.
So we got there a little early and after the initial meet and greet, we sat down to sign the paper work. That took a while. After that we were lead to the car and ALL the features were shown to us. It's a nice car! The way back home was a very enjoyable ride and we're hoping to post many more pictures from us, the car and our adventures.

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