A couple weeks ago we made an addition to our family. Let me introduce you to "Limo"...
(I didn't want anyone to be jealous of my photography skills, so I copied pictures off the internet. ;) )
I won't name any names (KYNNLEE), but we have this little person that lives in our household that has a problem with being confined, especially in the car! It started at birth. I remember her first doctor visit, she cried in the car the whole way, couldn't figure out what was wrong with my tiny baby! It has not gotten any better! The girl has hated being buckeld in anything. I swear she is the only baby on earth that didn't like those little Bumboo seats.
Anyhow, we have had 3 long, miserable years in the car. Our drive home for Christmas was just the icing on the cake when we decided to drive through the night and she didn't sleep but maybe 30min!! Not only that, but she kept Jaden awake too! It was horrible, to say the least.
So when we found out we were getting an awesome tax return (like enough to pay off my car and some leftover for a downpayment), we decided it was time for a new car! Trevor still has a year left in school, plus 3 years in residency (where he will only have an average income) so we still can't afford to feed an SUV. Besides, all of them we looked at were way over-priced and didn't have any fun options.
We ended up test driving a black 2008 Chrysler Town & Country Signature series. This thing had the goods! Dual DVD players, leather, heated seats, navigation, back-up camera, remote doors, remote start, and the list goes on! The kids came with us on the test drive, they were dead SILENT! We asked them if they liked it, they LOVED it! So then we gave the assignment to Kent...
The first one we found was in Detroit, and it ended up going for $5,000 more than the auction said the average price is because it had all the options! So then we found some in Pittsburgh. We were really debating on which ones to go for, all the goods, none of the goods and just install a DVD player... decisions, decisions! We needed (no, it really IS a NEED) the DVD player to be installed (as opposed to the ones that hook onto the headrest) so that a certain little girl wouldn't grab it, take the DVD out, scratch it, break it, etc... gosh that sounds familiar! So it all came down to this... go for the goods one more time, and if it's still too expensive then we still have the auction in Columbus to find one. It was such a pain to search through 300 Town & Country's and narrow it down. Yes, we were being GREEDY! But it paid off to be greedy this time! We got our top choice at the auction in Pittsburgh! It was even $1,000 less than the max we wanted to pay! I guess that because this one wasn't a Limited, car buyers didn't pay very close attention to it. Kent said that there were some Limited's that didn't have all the options that ours does that went for way MORE!
We basically got the exact same one that we test drove. It was even my top choice of color, and we couldn't be too picky about color. We definitely were banking on NOT getting navigation, leather, heated seats, double DVD players, and a few others. We got spoiled! We even got the Swivel & GO with the table in the back! That actually cracks me up to have a table in a car! We haven't used it yet, but I'm sure it will come in handy.
One of my favorite things is that KynnLee can watch Strawberry Shortcake and Jaden can watch Mario Bros. Having a girl and a boy 4 years apart makes it hard for them to agree on a movie. :)
You might think you know why we nick-named it Limo, yes it does feel as long as a limo after driving a car for 5 years. But it's actually because it has the "limo lights" along the sides of the roof console! So funny! We love it!
So I am now a mini-van mom, but only part time since I still take my car to school in Akron. But I drive my mini-van loud and proud, and in luxury! Limo and I are going to start a new mini-van trend! :)
