Well, the best news is that our cars arrived last week! Both of them and they seem to be in good shape. When we were at the shipping department getting ready to pick them up we received the paperwork which said that the vehicles were all scratched. I got a little nervous when we read that! They do have some scratches but nothing horrible and overall they seem to be in good shape. I'll post pictures when Abigail returns with my camera.
Since they're from Japan the biggest challenge is that we can't read the owner manuals! Also, the CRV "talks" to us in Japanese. Not quite sure what it's saying, but it sounds like "buckle up".
After we received the cars I realized it's the first time that we've owned two cars since 2004! There were a couple long periods that we had two when we were car-sitting for John's parents when they were in Ireland, but we haven't owned two of our own in 8 years. It feels like a luxury!
Our household help seems to be working out well and our gardener, Ofias has taken care of the gate morning and evening since he arrived. That has been great! The pair that we hired had their own tale of hiring difficulties, so it took a few days of sorting that out with our housekeeper, but she seems to have settled in now and my house is immaculate! Their tale was another long one, but to keep it short they thought all "summer" that they had a new job lined up only to find out that they didn't and their previous employer left no written references for them. Juliet was understandably out of sorts over this.
And, as you can tell from my posting photos, we have internet. I'm not sure how "high speed" it is - definitely during work hours it's not. I tried making phone calls during the day yesterday and it didn't work. Hopefully it will be good enough for Skype and Vonage on the nights and weekends.
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