Arrival of my first scope: Orion Skyquest XT8

Just got my Orion Skyquest XT 8 in the mail from Orion. This is my first real scope. I am in Stuttgart, so I ordered it to be delivered by USPS through the APO (that's Army Post Office, not Apochromatic in this case). I ordered it on 24 JAN and it arrived today 5 FEB 08, having travelled from California. Fairly speedy in my view. It was superbly packed and arrived in pristine condition. I carefully checked the exterior of the boxes and opened it carefully. Mirrors were good to go. I comes with a laser collimator and, after checking the secondary mirror (good-to-go), had it collimated in under a minute (primary needed a couple of tweaks). Really fast. It took me an hour to assemble it. The instructions were exactly right on. I did not hit any glitches. Nice action on both altitude and azimuth adjustments. Appears to be superb quality as well. Aligned the nice 9x50 finders scope very easily. Eyepieces seem to be good quality as well. Now if the clouds would only clear....