R.I.P. Dear Opel

When we woke up this morning, we were met with a white world. Yup, it snowed again. I was running late and asked Kelly to drive so I could eat my PB&J (breakfast) in the car on the way. When I made this request, I completely forgot that it had snowed. Kelly accepted and off we went. I felt so bad when I realized what I had done. She has told me more than once she is not a fan of driving in the snow. She said it was fine though and off we went. We get all the way to Beverwijk and start our "back road" journey towards the office. There is one notorious corner along the way, a flat 90 degree turn. Kelly was going slow, we had the snowflake on and we started down the road towards the turn. We're not sure what the snowflake does, but it helps give traction when in "snowflakey" conditions. Well, it didn't help this time. Kelly attempts the turn and we don't turn. We just continue sliding into this big yellow van. We all see it happening. We look at them, they look at us, we scream, they continue looking at us....all very slow motion. Then the SMACK came and we stopped sliding. We all get out look around, then decide its best to move the car from the center of the turn. Kelly backs it up out of the way and we call Richard. He is stuck in traffic so we call Ger. Poor guy. He was also the one who found us our apartment, took Kelly to the doctor when she was sick, and now this. He is probably ready to send us home! The people we hit turned out to be construction guys that work on cranes....and pick up wrecked vehicles from the road ways. What are the odds? They were really nice, took pictures of everything, and talked to Ger. Our car wasn't too bad. A bit of cosmetic damage, a crunched hood, bent license plate, but no fluids leaking out onto the ground. We didn't know what was going on or what to do so we stood around helplessly. Ger told us that Teus (who came with him) would take us back to the office and he would take care of it. An hour or so passes and Ger finally comes back to the office. We're not sure what he did exactly, but he showed up with a standard little car and told us they would get us an automatic tomorrow. Luckily, I know how to drive a standard, we'll see how that goes on the ice and snow. Wish us luck!