Van Trouble Inc. 2.0

Beloved blog readers,

I will start with the most important news I've got to share with you: Jasper is pregnant. It seems he has a very rare and previously even completely unknown condition called PIMP (Precipitation Induced Male Pregnancy) caused by the amazing weather we've been experiencing. He will be delivering first thing tomorrow morning and Frans and I have been appointed godparents.

On a completely unrelated and (in the light of Jaspers situation) minor note, The Hoff has once again decided to test our patience and break down. We have decided to skip Denial, Anger, Bargaining and Depression and get on with Acceptance, which brings us to the Starbucks in Chilliwack, where we are currently enjoying tea and abusing the free internet.

We originally landed here on a 15-minutes-customers-only parking space of a convience store near the Starbucks to have Skype-dates with our girlfriends. Realizing our mistake, we tried to start The Hoff to move him, but without success. After Skyping in the Starbucks we got our heads under the hood and tried to figure out what was going on. Our relative peace was disrupted by the reasonable Chinese owner of the convenience store who kept shouting "15 minutes!". After trying to explain that The Hoff could not be bothered to start on sheer will power and trying to comfort him by obtaining a candy bar from his store we resorted to ignoring him for a while, which did not stop him from cheering "15 minutes!" on every occasion he had (which was, unfortunately, all the time). After a while we shut him up by pushing The Hoff to the middle of the parking lot and found a mechanic to look at our car. The Hoff was towed over and people started crawling around it to make it work but, being German, The Hoff did not give in easily.

Back in the Starbucks, the mechanic just handed us our keys and left for the day and we'll be spending the night on a mechanics parking lot once again. Hopefully the bill won't get out of hand, because our budget only stretches so far... As long as we're stuck here, we've got time to waste (Chilliwack isn't really worth visiting, the weather is horrible and we have no means of transportation) so feel free to send us long emails and Skype us. The second The Hoff is on the road again, we'll be sure to post on this blog and let you know.