growing up costs a lot.

We did something huge.

Me and Stevey feel like grown-ups now.

We bought a car.

This car.


Yes, this ORANGE CAR! AHHHH!!!!! It's orange! That's my favorite aspect. We'll stick out like a sore thumb in parking lots. With our old car we could always find it because of the Laker's sticker on the back and the dent in the front. Now the color will give our car away.

It's a 2007 Chevy Aveo with only 60,000 miles. We went to this memorial day tent sale in Sandy for the Larry H. Miller companies looking for a particular hyundai elantra we saw they had. We also looked into Hondas and Toyotas beforehand so we could be ready to wheel and deal with these salesman people. We were hoping for something around 100,000 miles or so. Well we got there and our elantra had been sold. So we looked around a little more, test drove a Stratus, then talked the guy down on the price limit we were looking for. Most of the cars there were WAY over what we wanted to pay, but he said he'd check and see if there were any in our arena. He came back out of the office and said follow me and walked up to this little fireball and my heart leaped a little inside. :)

It's a manual, which we both love, and pretty standard for a little sedan car. We kept trying to push the price down and they kept wanting us to buy it so we ended up getting a good deal. and free oil changes. And tickets to the bees game. and donuts. and movie tickets and dinner vouchers.
They really wanted to sell this car. And we really wanted to milk it for the free perks. :)
Luckily the guy selling it to us wasn't paid on commission, he was just about numbers and getting the cars out of there, so I feel like we got a pretty good deal for a really healthy, low mileage, safe, dependable, awesome gas mileage, highly guaranteed (we got some sweet long term warranties), really cute car.

It's just scary to sign all those papers and it feels so binding! Ah! That's what growing up is about though I guess. We get to try to make smart decisions about buying cars. and I think we did. It's weird cause it's totally not what we expected to find, and it was a little more than we were looking for, but we feel like it's going to last us through med school and beyond and it was a worthwhile investment. And just to console Stevey we'll probably have to get a new Lakers decal sticker for the back windshield (like we had on our old car). We all have to make sacrifices I guess. Stupid Lakers.

But what a sweet car. Welcome to the family little orange friend. :)