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Well, we never made it to the movies.

we went to breakfast at our favorite place, the Golden Corral in Anderson, then went to Sam’s Club just to look around. There wasn’t anything there we couldn’t live without, so left.

Ken wanted to stop at the Suzuki place and look at what they had. You all know how I feel about car shopping. I really hate it. But, that’s what he wanted to do and so that’s what we did. We looked at a little Reno hatchback that showed 33 mpg highway on the sticker. Of course a salesman came out to ask if he could help and started telling us about the car. Ken told him we were looking for something that got better mileage than the van for day-to-day driving and wanted a car payment around $200 per month. We never expected them to get anywhere close, but evidently the car business is so bad, they couldn’t let a live one off the hook that easily. While they were running numbers, we looked at other cars on the lot and found this SX4 which I think we both fell in love with at first glance. We asked about this one, again never expecting them to come close, but they did! Not only that, but we qualified for 0% interest!

So now we’re the proud owners of a 2008 Suzuki SX4 in "deep sea blue" and oddly enough, that makes us patriotic as well, since we now on a red truck, a white van and a blue car.  It’s supposed to get 38mpg which is a great deal better than the Dodge van gets (23) and a little better than the Venture got (30). We traded in the Venture which they gave us Blue Book retail for (!) on trade. It’s paid off, so there was nothing owed on it, plus they knocked $2,000 off the list price of the car. For once in my lifetime, we drove off the lot in a brand new car owing less than it’s worth. I sure never anticipated a new car for my birthday! Thanks, honey! 😆

Love to all,

Margaret