Day 7

We still haven’t heard from the private school, and instead of doing anything exciting, we drove to a Toyota dealership to check out a sweet Avanza minvan (sarcasm). It took us 30 minutes to drive to the dealership and when we got there, they told us that the car was at another dealership about an hour away. So, we got back in the car and drove another hour, to another car dealership.

When we arrived at the second dealership, my wife spoke to a salesman who inquired about this sick minivan, and the salesperson told us that it wasn’t there. And then he just aimlessly walked around looking for it once he saw the look in both of our eyes, the kind of look that says “find that car right now” but the look also means “I might kill you if you don’t confirm where this car is”. It felt like a wild goose chase. Fifteen minutes after claiming the car wasn’t there, low and behold it actually was. Again, I hate to channel my inner Chevy Chase, but it felt like I was in my own National Lampoons vacation, all the salesman had to do was try to get us to buy a family trickster instead of our blue sport wagon Avanza.

Luckily the kids were entertained with building blocks in the middle of the sales floor. While they were making a lot of noise and commotion, my wife kept asking questions, and the salesman kept saying he can’t answer a lot of them because his boss was eating lunch and would be back in 30 minutes. Fifty minute later some random salesperson asks us if we need help, and she helps us deal with the minivan. We were promised that we can sell it back in 6 months for 80% of what we purchase it for, since I don’t plan on driving this back to the States.

The kids were amazing during the few hours we tried to get this car, so we promised to take them to Applebees. Yes there are many Applebees where we are, and a Little Ceasers, and some McDonalds. This applebees had a huge play structure inside the restaurant for the kids to enjoy, so they got to play in an enormous play structure during dinner.

After dinner our children choreographed their own song as a type of theatre production, based off one of their favorite movies (my doing). They love musicals, and it shows.