Upgrading the car

Kirill & I returned the Alera yesterday afternoon. In its stead we now have a Mitsubishi Diamante, which he describes as a Japanese Mercedes. It has a sun-roof & heated leather seats, among other things. We took it for a spin & have decided that it is much nicer than the Alera.

While we were at Hertz, however, we found out that they had been charging Sun $5.50/day for property theft insurance that Kirill had not asked for & was quite unaware of. Considering that we never leave anything remotely valuable in the car, this was basically about $300 down the tube because the Hertz employee that gave Kirill the car in SFO had pulled a sneaky trick.