Monday, July 30, 2007
Single Car Family…no more!
After a gentle reminder from a good friend, I realized I hadn't finished this post…
Maybe it's just for a couple of days, maybe for longer…but we're a single car family now. It'll be interesting how it works. Thankfully, we don't work too far away from each other and I have a wonderful friend who works right down the street and lives super close, so that should make it easier.
We have finally decided that we want a Honda Pilot…
…and that was as far as I got in writing a post during the middle of our car hunt. We now have a 2003 Honda Pilot after a little more than a month of searching, test driving, and bargaining with car dealerships. Although my feelings about insurance companies will have to be saved for another post (and let's just say they're NOT warm and fuzzy), I can say that I'm glad we've put this part of the wreck behind us.
David can take all the credit for this car. Had it been up to me, I would have either bought the first Pilot we looked at, talked myself out of a SUV into a more economical vehicle, or (by the time we actually had the insurance money a little over a month after the wreck) bought the first thing with four wheels and a steering wheel that presented itself. Thankfully, my husband likes to process, review every little bit of information available, and takes his time making decisions. Sounds like a good balance to my quick, confident, and sometimes impatient decision making huh? Yeah, somehow I'm pretty sure that God knew what he was doing. However, I digress. The beautiful SUV you see above was made possible by David's great bargaining skills and mounds of patience.
I'm throughly enjoying driving a car that I really like. It even is the right color! Not to mention it's big, and after the wreck we just experienced, I can say that I like the idea of being the bigger car. I know, I know, shoot me, but if someone is going to run a red light, I'll be prepared, that's all I'm saying.
As you can tell, it's silver outside, and has a gray-blue interior. It has leather, climate control (a BIG plus in my book) a third seat that folds completely flat, and a dvd system. The last two items weren't really high on our list of priorities, but are fun additions. It's super smooth and is very tight (a good thing ladies). The best compliment it received was when my boss got out of it after I drove several of us to lunch and incredulously said "It's four years old?!" I'm a fan.
This shows the back seat completely folded down.
The next step is to name it. Ideas?