New Van

The chaos of buying a new car also happened the same day as the chaos of throwing a silk-screening-birthday-fail ... I mean party...

We had decided about 2 weeks prior that we needed a new van, ours was quite old but since it was relatively new to us we still owed money on it. It's a reliable about-town car but we didn't want to rely on it to get us to Colorado (or California in October), meaning we were paying car payments AND airline tickets and rental car fees every time we want to go somewhere. We researched available used vans around town, got a lot of online reports, and Joe had already scheduled a friday off so we decided that would be a good day to go look. Looking for us usually means buying, and sure enough we found a vehicle we were happy with at a price we were happy with and boight a van!

But nothing easy is ever easy... That Friday was a half-day at school (which was also the reason I had picked it to have the party, instead of on a Saturday), so we had to leave to pick up kids, I had to return to sign more papers, the kids didn't want to go sign papers so they stayed at the neighbors,  the papers took a lot longer than they should have because the computer kept auto-filling withother people's information, blah blah... We finally had keys in hand at 3, the party was at 5, and I still hadn't decorated or frosted the cake! This is also why I didn't have extra games in place, I was busy buying a van, which should only have taken us until 1:00, not 3:00.

At any rate, the party's over but the van is still here, so I'd say it was worth it ;) it's a 2015 Dodge Grand Caravan, black, has about half of the bells and whistles (electronic doors and hatch? Yes. Installed DVD players? No.), and we can now drive ourselves all over the country in comfortable peace of mind!