Bye Bye, Mustang!

Some happy and sad news to report: Dean sold his Mustang Cobra last Saturday....his "baby" that he bought as a graduation present after college. I know it's going to be hard for him to say goodbye (we still have it in our garage for now), but for the record, I DIDN'T make him do it! It's been hard finding time for him to drive it recently, and especially since Grant has come along. To fit his carseat in the back, you have to move the front seat up so far that it would be impossible for someone to sit there. So that basically means that the three of us would never ride in it together, and that Dean would have to drive it by himself all the time.

Dean considered selling the car a couple of months ago to a good friend of his. But then he drove it a few times and got so many compliments that he thought it might be worth keeping, for a collector's item if nothing else. Well, last week he drove it to work every day while the Passat was in the shop. He came home from work one day and said that he'd decided to sell it.....it's almost 10 years old, and he'd want someone to be able to enjoy it while it still doesn't need a lot of maintenance work. So he called his friend back, and he and his dad are going to buy it.

Dean went around that day and took all kinds of pictures of it. I'm a little sad for him, because I know he loves that car. But he seems to be okay with it, especially because it's a friend buying it. So he knows where to go if he ever wants to visit it! And....as an added bonus, now he's able to get his big screen TV again (which we were going to put off buying after all the money we spent on the Passat). So I guess there's a little bit of silver lining in everything!