Fiesta Time!

Well, after almost eight years of faithful driving, poor Stryder finally died--literally. :-( After Sunday's breakdown along Veteran's Parkway, we realized that Stryder had probably reached the end of his road. He had just been at the car repair place the week before (for about the fifth time in the last month), and we realized that it would probably be unwise to keep spending money trying to figure out what the problem was. So on Tuesday Greg tried to drive Stryder four miles to the car dealership. Stryder made it about three miles, but gave up and died in the parking lot of Sports Authority. The car-buying process took all day, so after we had purchased the new car, the guy who sold us the new car rode back to Sports Authority with us to see if Stryder would drive the last mile to the dealership. But, Stryder wouldn't even start--I know it sounds funny and that cars don't really have feelings, but it was kind of like he tried his best to get me where I needed to go, and once he saw that I had a new car to pick up where he had left off, he was finally able to just completely give up. Poor guy--I was sincerely sad to give him up. We have had a lot of good times together!

But here is my cool new car: a 2012 Ford Fiesta! As they say in the Fiesta commercials, "It's a pretty big deal." :-) Greg and I had hoped to save some money by just buying a used car, but unfortunately this is not a great time to buy a used car--the prices are crazy high, and anything "affordable" had really high miles. So for just a little bit more than a car with 80,000 miles on it, we were able to buy the new Fiesta. I really enjoyed driving it yesterday, and I am looking forward to its great gas mileage. I still haven't thought of a name . . . any ideas? It is a really cool color--it is called Gray Violet. It's mostly gray, but in certain light you can see a hint of violet. So hopefully this is the beginning of a new car journey that will last many years and many miles!