Hey there, hope you had a good trip. Did you ever find out whose Silver X5 that was?
It's interesting....we ended up with the X5 similarly. We were at the Lexus dealership looking at an ES300. There was a 98 528i that looked cool. So we were like wth, never driven a BMW before, might as well see what it's about. Test drove and

. I thought that was love and looked vigorously for a 530i and somehow ended driving an X5 and knew it could NOT get better. The 5-Series is nice, but having the seating position AND the handling is amazing. It's mind blowing that BMW pulled this off.