yesterday's purchase

We finally did it.  We bought a car - after nearly a year of being a one car family, we decided to go back to two.  We loved our 1992 Honda Civic so much that we wanted to buy another one, a bit newer though.  We've been looking for an 03-05 model, 4 door, manual, with less than 100,000 miles and less than $10,000.  We found this 2005 Civic yesterday, and after spending ALL afternoon at the dealership, we decided to buy it.  I won't say how much we paid, but we did buy it for $1000 less than their asking price and wrote a check for it.  But we're terrible at haggling by the way.  We ended up doing pretty well with just our indecision - they took that as playing hard to get.  We nearly walked away, just not really sure if we wanted to buy it, but of course that worked to our advantage as they kept coming down on the price.  We may not have got the best deal, but it wasn't bad.  We're hoping this will last a while.  I do have to brush up on my manual driving, but that's what Alex really wanted (can't believe he talked me into getting another one).

The best part of the day for the boys was jumping on the big inflatable in their lot.  They thought that was the best thing ever!  We may have to go car shopping more often, just so the boys can have "free" fun on the inflatable.  (I guess it was a pricey bit of fun since we bought a car.  But hey, they gave us a fancy chocolate bar too...  :))