The GLI turned 41,000 on Sunday, November 16!
It wass a gorgeous fall night, clear and cold, and Enzo and I were heading back from Chicago. It had been a pretty long day, it was jet black dark, and Enzo was reclined in the passenger seat, sleeping peacefully.
Every time I drive the car, I'm continually impressed by just how fundamentally good of a car it is. Powerful, comfortable, efficient, and good at just gliding down the road. On the winter tires, there is such a surplus of power that I don't really use much more than one third of the throttle. I've been paying attention to boost usage, and find myself using about 50% of the total boost the car can produce.
The real question is, why were only Enzo and I in Chicago? Well, we took a day trip to visit my new nephmews:
Enzo was in ecstasy and being able to play with the tiny creatures. The kittens are so young that they still have spiky kitten fur - truly babies. You don't get a sense of it when Enzo is holding them, but they weigh about 2 pounds each, and are smaller than my hand:
Kittens are so small for such a short period of time. It's easy to forget when most of their lives, they're living in their full-sized bodies:
