New Car

We got a new car today! DH and I had been talking about getting a new car for a while. Our Toyota Sienna has over 100,000 miles on it and recently there have been problems with the brakes and other things. After all, reliability is our #1 priority. This week, DH went to the dealership to get the back latch fixed. It broke about a month ago, so we couldn't even open the back door at all--very inconvenient for our active family. The repair guy told him that it wasn't worth fixing if we were going to end up trading the car in. This made us think of getting a new car a little sooner. While he was there at the dealership, DH started looking at the new Siennas and the Sequoia. We know a few people, including my sister, who own Honda Odysseys, so DH looked at those, too.

We liked how there was an option for an eighth seat in the Odyssey. This has been a concern lately, since we are now a family of six, which only leaves one extra seat. Whenever one set of grandparents comes to visit, we have to take two cars to go anywhere. With everything else about equal, this eighth seat plus how the Odyssey is a few thousand less than the Sienna tipped the scales in favor of the Odyssey. So, we brought home our new Odyssey today!

I just have to add that DH did all the shopping on this one. In the past, we would go to the car dealership together to look at cars. Usually we decided on a particular make and model before we even went to the dealership, however. This time, we were doing some comparison shopping. DH made this process very easy on me. He did the legwork, he test-drove the vehicles, and he negotiated with the salesman. All I had to do was go in and sign papers with him. He even picked my favorite color--red! We finished up at the dealership just in time to pick up the kids from school. They were so excited! They're even more excited that we're taking the new car on a road trip tomorrow to visit my family for my nephew's First Communion.

I'll take a photo of the new car tomorrow. :)

Here it is!