Our New Car

Our new car and our family car

On Thursday we all drove (separately) to St. Louis to the Smart Car dealership to pick out a smart car. We actually placed an order for one in January of 2008, but the waiting list was so long. Turns out a lot of people that ordered cars couldn't actually buy them when their order came up so the dealerships have been able to keep an inventory of them. Josh really wanted a convertible and I thought that would be cool since we're mainly using the car for Josh to drive to work in and run errands. I got to drive it this morning to the grocery store and it was really fun. I had probably half a cart full of groceries and they all fit nicely in the little trunk and the passenger seat. I put the top down on the way home and zipped through the winding roads back to our house. The convertible is cool because it has bars that go across the top of the windows and you can remove those and then store them in the back of the tailgate. The car gets great gas mileage and since we had never put the kids in the other car we didn't think it was a big deal to just get a two-seater.