matching the sunshine today, we were granted another very nice experience:

after the bloated rejection note from the swabian luxury car maker with the star (if carl, gottlieb and wilhelm would learn about that!) we have found a much better way to move all our troops including support at the same time from here on out.

and here is how: jens and chrissi, a very nice pair of humans from near berlin and readers / contributors on the V-CLUB FORUM, THE first address on the web for all mercedes van drivers, heard my call for help.

the 6 individual seats in the troop shuttle are not enough: 1 aupair, 2 parents, 3 kids and where is the dog supposed to be? sure, sure, she does not exactly need a seat, but the space of one. solution to the problem: if in the back, instead of the 2 individual armchairs, would be a 3-seater bench, all babies could be back there, while the grownups and dog distribute themselves on the remaining 4 spaces.

so, i posted a quick "emergency" on the forum. and wasnt only heard, but also the saviors will be in the area soon! which makes the seat exchange so much easier!

so, there ARE human beings after all. humane ones. human beings who do NOT invest 8 weeks and 1000s of euros in an excuse why they can not do something that takes a quarter of an hour and costs next to nothing. human beings who stand up and help where needed. and such human beings are also jens and chrissi. and arnsgar and micha. THANK Y'ALL VERY MUCH!

we are mobile. i mean thoroughly mobile! everybody can ride along... boys, girls, old ones, young ones, bipeds, four-legs, black-haired, white-skinned... so: a bench for every-butt-y...