Suther Land

So we bought our first new car last week--a Dodge Durango. We had been thinking of buying a new car for awhile, especially after our camping trip where the Honda was sorely overworked. But, no payment and good gas mileage was keeping us in the trusty Accord. When the grandparents were here, we decided to visit a few dealerships since we had babysitters. After four hours and five dealerships, we were disappointed to find nothing in our price range, though we did get to drive some fun jeeps.

We were looking for three rows of seats and the only perk we cared about was leather--the cloth seats in the Honda were pretty nasty after the kids. The last place we tried had the Durango with everything we wanted and nothing we didn't. Most of the other vehicles we perused had unnecessary stuff like big subwoffers and fancy rims. We do not need to be the pimped-out pastors family. Anyway, we figured we should pull the trigger since it was 10 grand less than everything we'd seen that day. FIVE hours later after much annoying haggling and saying goodbye to the Honda, we drove away with the car and (we think) a good deal. Ryan played hard-ball and I was exhausted. The kids love it, but filling up physically painful.