A New Ride

So as June 17th rapidly approached and the lease on my Lexus came to an end I needed to find a new car.  I was pretty sure I wanted a larger car and the Subaru Forester was the front runner.  But the more I looked at it the less I like it.  So I had to go back to the drawing board.  I started with who was having a good sale and it turns out Nissan was.  So one day after work I headed over there to drive the Altima.  Oh and also the Quest just to see what it drove like.  So Paul, the sales guy, and I headed out on a test drive of the Altima.  It was alright but nothing that blew me away.   We then drove the Quest, it was better than I expected and had a lot more room.  We even drove it to the house to show it to Alyssa.  As I pondered my decision Paul showed me a brand new dark red Altima that had just arrived.  It had every feature I could want it in a car.  So that made my decision much tougher.  After much debate though and a night where I took home the van to sleep on it.  I took another step in my journey as a parent and bought the Quest.  It was a great choice, the first weekend after I bought it Alyssa, Julia, and I packed it up and headed to Charlottesville.  I was amazing how much I could get packed into it and how comfortable it was to drive.

So now I truly feel like a parent driving around in a minivan.

And I know Julia and Alyssa will love it when we drive up to RI over the summer.