The Week of Cars

So for the last four years we have had a 2000 Chrysler Grand Voyager, which was given to us from Ben's brother and Sister-in-law after our previous van was stolen. This van has been great with hardly any problems and we have appreciated it so much. We have used it a lot and it had 140,000 miles on it. Unfortunately on Tuesday, it died. It might have survived a little longer if I had not run it into the back of another car, which in turn hit the car in front of it, but we will never know for sure. Thankfully the vehicles were the only things that were seriously injured in the accident and all people involved were fine.



We've had the use of a rental car this week, and I have to say that I think rental companies should only give you rental cars that are in worse condition than what you normally drive. Otherwise, you might get attached to said rental car and not want to go back to normal life.

We were given this 2010 Acadia, complete with all the bells and whistles including seat warmers, a remote opening trunk, and a rear-view camera for when you go in reverse. We have thoroughly enjoyed driving this car.

However knowing that this couldn't last forever we went out yesterday to look for a new vehicle and found this beauty. It is a 2002 Chrysler Town and Country with only 62,000 miles on it. It is the ultimate grandma car complete with a soft dashboard cover. Hopefully it will be as good to us as our last Chrysler minivan and last a little longer.



This week was not all cars thankfully. We were able to pick our first clementines off our tree we planted this spring. We got 6 in all and they were really yummy. I can't wait until it is big enough to grow more than 6 a year.

Also this week my kids, after several weeks of hasseling from mom, decided to all wash their jackets the same day. This caused them to feel the need to borrow my jackets for school. Thank goodness for hand-me-downs, I actually had plenty of jackets in my closet.