brand new honda civic vti automatic

went with ivy and ida to astoria at north road to the honda cars dealer. ivy had arranged with elaine to be there at 11 a.m. before going to astoria, we had gone to chadstone to buy 3 boxes of krispy kreme and ida got herself the latest harry porter book. i do not understand why there was such a long queue - at least 50 people long - outside borders. ida got it from augus without having to stand behind any person at all.

while ida waited in the car and read the book, we went to see the salesperson craig to negotiate the price for a new honda civic vti 1.8 automatic. elaine had been specially enlisted to do the bargaining. elaine drives a honda civic sports, which she bought from the same dealer - and she had helped ian and cassandra to close the deals with the same salesperson. the final price was aus$26,500 (s$34,450); the dealer would take in ivy's kia for $8000. after putting down a deposit of $500, ivy will still have to pay some $18 000 when she drives the car away in a month's time.

ivy's kia rio is about four years old, which she got brand new for about $14,000. it is a manual version and i - having been so used to driving automatic cars - do not feel confident whenever i drive her korean car.

as elaine had to go off for a lunch appointment, we drove to clayton to eat at the indonesian restaurant (warung gudeg) which has been advertised on ieatishootipost blog. lunch for three of us came up to aus$28.