Car

I've been posting things on facebook, and I haven't been writing about them here. Just in case anyone is interested and doesn't see me on facebook our biggest news is that we bought a new car! I know crazy in this economy right? When Ethan and I met in 1998, we both still had our first cars. I had a 1988 Sundance I bought from my brother (piece of crap), and he had a used Escort that he bought in college. Around January of 2000 some lady went through a red light while I was turning left and she totalled my car. So Ethan and I had the Escort. Then his Escort's second transmission died. We figured it was a bad idea to put a third transmission into a car. So we were stuck needing a car. I must say that I married into the most marvelous family in the world. We were planning on asking Ethan's lovely aunt for a low interest loan, but before we got to that point, Ethan's parents offered to give us their 1996 Civic. They went down to one car so that we could have a car. To this day I am still blown away by that kind of generosity. My parents didn't even give me things they had promised me, much less anything extra.

When we had Dermot we put it off, but we needed a second car. That's when we got my 2004 CR-V, which I still love. We have been happy with both cars, but the Civic is 12 years old and the gas mileage was hovering around 20 miles to the gallon instead of 30 - even after being worked on. I don't believe in driving a car until it actually does die on you, if you are lucky enough to have a choice. We had been planning on buying a car this summer, but the deals just got to good for us. Ethan has had his eye on a hybrid for a while. We are not as "green" as we could be, who is?, but we certainly do try. Ethan is better at than I am because he was raised thinking this way - I was not. Anyway, we were looking at the Prius and the hybrid Civic. Ethan had decided on a Prius based on a bunch of research, and after driving them both he liked the Prius better too. I went and tried the Prius only, and I really liked it. It's totally space-age. He does not need a key to turn on the car. How Jetsons! He has an electric component that looks like my electric opener for the CR-V, but he only needs to have it in his pocket.

I haven't really driven our car yet because Ethan's still thoroughly enjoying it. As a passenger, though, the Prius is great. It has more room than the Civic did, and it rides more quietly. Which is funny because we chose the CR-V over the Rav-4 because the Honda had more room than the Toyota. Dermot loves having a new car. He kept talking about it when we first got it. He thinks it's cool that he gets to go to school in a brand new car. So now, Ethan and I have both had the pleasure of having our first, own, new cars.