Enough from Neil already!!!

I'm not really sure what to write in a blog. But I have to say that I am getting really annoyed with the fact that Neil won't stop bugging me that I will lose my place as social secretary if I don't keep in contact with everyone. Little does he know, that I have been sending emails to people, but perhaps doing this will keep him off my back!!!

So I was thinking that I would talk about our car adventures. More specifically the adventures of trying to arrange insurance and getting the plates on the car.....

This whole car thing, has been incredibly time consuming! This is because when you move to BC lots of things have to be done, and they must all be done within the first month, otherwise car insurance gets cancelled, and no insurance no driving.... which means the weekends could have the potential to be quite boring..... so the adventure of "getting BCed" began.

We needed to have an oil change, because driving across the country does rack up a few kms, as well as new tires, and a brake check.... which by the way turned out to be a brake change in the front!!! :) We found a garage thanks to one of my coworkers, and set off to have all of the repairs done. BUT, after all of this is done, there is also the requirement of having an inspection. Now on a sidenote, all of you have seen our car, I must say that newer cars shouldn't have to have this inspection done.... I mean the cars all come from the same plant in Asia somewhere, no matter where they ship them.... but because we had an "out of province" car... the inspection was required! So we then had that done..... and once all of that came to a close we had to have plates (yes with an s)... which I must add is hard to do when you only have place for one plate....... did I mention we had to go back to the garage a third time!!!!

So getting back to the insurance part of the story.... we were required to give our Newfoundland plate to the ICBC people. (apparently you aren't supposed to keep your old licence plate )... this turned out to be quite the task.... because when you live in NFLD, there is lots of salt in the air.... and salt makes things rust..... and I think most of us can see where this is going...... YES that is right... the plate decided to be rusted to the back of the car.... which meant that we couldn't remove it to give to the insurance people. They pulled out a box of tools, but to no avail the rust wasn't going to let us win!!!

So we decided, "if we have the right type of screwdriver, maybe it will work".... so we went to Wal-Marde to get a screwdriver.... and it so happens that the woman that was helping us was married to a man from a little island that we had just left.... yes, her husband was from The Rock..... coincidence, I think not.... them newfs b'y they're everywhere!!!!! :)
Anyways we ended up returning the screwdriver, because the f%$#*&@ screws would not come off.... the rust just didn't want to let go!!!! Needless to say we had to bring the plate back to ICBC the next day, after Neil fought with it at home!!!

But it was an interesting adventure... and now we have 2 plates on the car, and we are allowed to drive it and play bumper cars if we really want to!!!! :)

I'll try and write again soon!!!! :)