We're in Chicagoland for Thanksgiving. The drive down was uneventful - the kids slept half of the way, which led to much late night mayhem once we landed in Palatine.
We bought a car.
I'll explain. One of our two cars is coming off lease in January, and Pamela was getting concerned with what to replace it with... something that is better at carrying multiple kids and could also support the inevitable dog. We had settled on the Toyota Highlander, preferably a hybrid, and hopefully used to take some of the sting out of depreciation.
The past couple of weeks we've been watching the used car lots in town to see if any relatively new Highlander Hybrids (07?) are hitting the lots, but none have shown up. The only ones we'd seen were 2006 with beige cloth - very basic cars. When we arrived in Palatine, Pamela and I thought: Chicago is a much bigger market, people go through their cars faster, and they seem to like to pimp them out with options a bit more... maybe there's something here!
We did some searching and found the holy grail: a 2008 Hybrid, fully loaded with every conceivable option, driven for a year by a Toyota sales rep who put 20k miles on it, available for sale for $13k lower than the equivalent NEW model. We RAN down to Naperville and test drove it - there was no catch - it was purely the miles that caused the depreciation, not haunting/ghosts/murder or grievous hidden damage.
We made a deal on the spot, and we're driving it home (along with the car we drove down here...). Bella LOVES the car, and we're working on some names. The car is pearlescent white and flat out gorgeous. Hence the White reference in the title... though having written it, I imagine we'll have some sort of snowstorm around here... ;-> Right now, Bella's thinking about naming it "Marshmallow". I'm leaning towards "Cracker" but nobody's backing me up on that one.
Tomorrow is the big meal - it should be wonderful. A quote from Bella:
"I like Thanksgiving because there are always mashed potatoes. Plenty of mashed potatoes, and that's all right with me."
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