Simon collected Tim from San Francisco airport last night and he managed a few beers and to stay awake until gone 10pm – not bad… He brought gifts of chocolate AND noisy toys for the boys – suspect he will help them with the battery drainage in the next couple of days (once he has realized his mistake of noisy toys) since he is sleeping in the room next door to them 🙂

Simon is actually going to be finished with work by the end of this week so we have a couple extra days of stuff to figure out…

The X5 did go back to BMW yesterday without any issues and the GTI is going back to VW tomorrow – fingers crossed that will be similarly simple.  It should be a simple transaction as the VW dealership is picking up a cheap low mileage showroom condition GTI at 17K that they will sell easily for 26 or 27K 🙁 If we had more time here, we would buy the thing and sell it for 24 making a tidy profit along the way also…

Last night, Vicky suggested to Simon that he should not get a VW Samba bus (Simon was somewhat disappointed by this obviously) but then threw a curve ball – why don’t you get a 5/6 year old Aston Martin DB9 instead….. Oh crap – that is a tough call – suspect there is going to be lots of autocar web traffic from our wifi over the next few weeks…. 🙂