Finally ours

So after waiting four weeks for our new car to make its way from Calgary (not actually there) to the port in Vancouver, to somehwere behind a lot of cars at the port in Vancouver, to a truck on an unspecified date to the dealership we finally got to go and pick up our new Mazda6 Sportwagon GT. A long and gruelling battle to be sure, but one that is worth it for sure. We traded in the little Civic and are now the proud owners of a car that we can rely on to get us out to the lake, that has four doors and you don't have to be from Cirque de Soleil to get into, that makes us very happy drivers, that has a warranty if something goes wrong (knock wood) and that really lives up to the Zoom Zoom tagline.


The ultimate key ceremony

Of course after waiting that long for a car that we were told was just down the highway in Calgary, we were pretty keen to get into it and take it for a spin. Where do all new car owners drive to the first thing? Mundare of course. Home of the world's biggest Ukrainian sausage and the excellent Stawnichy meat processing factory(who make the amazing garlic sausages for which the monument in town was built). It was a great little jaunt up highway 16 to a town that I'd never been to and which turned out to have an excellent bakery that sold vanilla slices, so not only did we come away from Mundare with a lot of processed meat and pictures of the car in front of an infeasibly large sausage, I also got to eat some really good vanilla slice the day I picked up the new car so a happier man I don't think you'd find in Edmonton that day.


A great new wagon in front of the world's biggest Ukrainian sausage


Just hanging out in the carpark in Mundare - looking spectacular

This of course means that there will likely be a few more pictures of the new family member as we get to know it a little better (and possibly even give it a name and gender). I don't know about you, but I'm excited! Zoom Zoom Zoom!