This One's for You, Stu

Apparently I'm not keeping up with my blogging to meet everyone's standards! I'm in trouble for not posting pictures of Grant's new car the day after we brought it home. So, I ran out in the drizzle as soon as I finished dinner to snap a few pictures with the last hints of daylight. I hope this post will redeem me.

Yep, Grant finally has his very own car again, and it's a pretty sweet ride. No more "hoopty" for this guy; he's driving a Mercedes. Here's a look at Grant's new car. If these pictures don't show enough, you'll just have to come see it in person.

Eleanor got some cool new sunglasses yesterday. She loves them.

I actually found the car online last week right before we went to the beach, and we went and took it for a spin on Monday. It's a 2000 Mercedes C230 with only 70,000 miles on it. It has leather interior, sun roof, a supercharged 16 valve four cylinder engine with an automatic transmission (but it has the shift up/down option on the gear shift). It was a real blessing to be able to find a car with so few miles in such good condition (one owner: non-smoker --woohoo!) that we could afford. Even some of the lower end models that were older or had more miles on them were more expensive than this one. I love that we were able to get something sensible that Grant could really enjoy driving. He's really happy; he's always wanted a Mercedes. And when he's happy, I'm happy!

We can't really call his car the hoopty anymore since it really isn't a hoopty. At first, I experimented with morphing the name hoopty to somehow be a name for a classy car, but hoopty is as hoopty does. So, since Grant isn't into naming cars, I decided to dub the Mercedes "Sadie." I know, it's a bit girly, but classy cars are usually called "she," right? Besides, I know she'll never become the "other woman" in Grant's life.

My Bragging Rights:
When we took the Mercedes for a test drive, we left my Jetta in their car lot. When we got back, the car dealer said he could have sold my car three time while we were gone. He was just itching for us to trade it in, but there was no way I'd part with my "Dub-yuh." The deisel engine cars are worth so much right now. We could get the same price we paid for my car if not more if we sold it right now, but we're going to keep it.