New Truck

Today I got my truck. It is a Mitsubishi Colt, 4 door pickup truck. It seems to pretty much be like a Mitsubishi Montero from the states without the SUV back end. They call trucks bakies here. That is pronounced "bahkee." It's not 4wd (which would have come in handy on some of these roads), but it's got a locking differential and it's lifted pretty high. It's got over 220,000 kilometers, which is around 136,000 miles. That's a lot, but it's a diesel, so it should be able to go for quite a bit more than that. Vehicles are very expensive here in South Africa, so this was the best that we could do for the money we had. It runs really good. David has a friend who knows the dealer that we bought it from. They grew up together and he knows him to be an honest guy, so that made me feel good about buying from him. Plus, David's friend drove this same truck as a loaner car for a few weeks about two months ago and he knew that it ran well. That made me think that it wasn't being held together with bubble gum and shoe strings, which is a common problem buying used cars in South Africa, I'm told.
This is just a cute picture of Kyler licking some cake batter that Jenny made.