The Cars

While the kids and I were sleeping through jet-lag on Thursday, Kevin went into work for a few hours. He came home with a car. A very loud and fast Nissan Skyline (Kevin insists I add that it is a R33 twin turbo). I'm not up on cars but Ryan says it is very cool and she knows cars! This Nissan is straight from Japan (sorry Shirley) so all the words are in Japanese. Thank goodness there are also symbols on everything or operating the GPS would be even more difficult than usual.


Saturday morning, again while the kids and I were sleeping, Kevin went out to run a few errands and came back with another car, this one for me. A Land Rover Freelander. No twin turbo here but it is an automatic transmission which is not very common. Hmmm...do you think that Kevin has concerns about my ability to drive on the left AND shift gears? Hey, I'm a born and bred Texan. I can drive anything!

Kevin does a decent job driving on the left, with one slightly hysterical incident yesterday when he attempted to enter an exit ramp. I drove today for the first time and did fine but it wasn't far and I only encountered one roundabout. We keep telling Ryan that she has to drive at least one time before she leaves but she isn't sure that is a good idea. She is a very careful driver so I think she will do fine!