After a lot of talking with my husband and thinking, we decided to not enroll Motoki in the athletics club. As sad as it is to say, it ends up boiling down to money. Not that we can`t afford it (it is outrageous… But that`s not the issue) – but rather that it would be a total waste to have him join it now.
The school year ends in the middle of March. For the last few weeks there are various events… The only advantage to joining now is that we would only have to pay half the regular entrance fee… A discount of 3000yen. And in return, we`d pay 2 months worth of class fees (a total of 12000yen) for two classes. In my eyes, a complete waste. I`d much rather pay the regular entrance fee and start at a point where there are a normal number of classes each month.
Motoki was disappointed, but that is life. We will consider joining again in April.
I doubt there is anyone out there who cares about this as much as we do, but more fun car info after the break!
Two weeks until the new car arrives. We have been preparing things bit by bit. The official floor mats are far far too expensive for being, well, pieces of carpet with plastic spikes on the back. In USD, around $300. We opted to have custom ones made to order – for around $80.
The same is true for the navigation system. The best official one is around $4000… *choke* And it`s only alright in features – nothing amazing or special. So we bought a third party navigation system for about $1700. In terms of features, it is about twice as nice as the dealer one. We`re having it installed at the dealer before we receive the car, so actual installation costs are the same as the dealer version. Yay.
Yeah. Never get any dealer options for a new car unless you can haggle it down. That’s how we got the snow tires/rims for the Harrier before; usually they were charging some ridiculous amount of money for them.
It seems like they will let you haggle things down if you`re getting a lot of things. We aren`t. The only option we`re buying at this point is the paint coating (which is virtually required, it seems), window tint, and a mat for the cargo spot. Not quite enough to get them to do anything but reduce the price of installation for the third-party navi.
Plus the Prius isn`t having any trouble selling so there is much less incentive to offer stuff.
Hello, It is good to see that you are well. I was quite worried about your health and safety. I have been checking about once every other month or so to see if there were any new posts. I don’t remember when or how I found your blog about Motiki. I believe it was a link on a site I was at, but I went back to the begining and read up everyday until I caught up. I cried a lot, I do that about good and bad things. You both are very strong and brave to be able to go through what you have, I am glad to hear that you have celebrated your tenth? anniversary. I hope that you are together for a very long time. I think that with the way you have been caring for Motiki, he will continue to improve beyond what the doctors ever thought he would. Take care.