Shiny

March 31, 2009 in Life by emily | 4 comments

I accidentally went out and sold my car today.

Oops.

She was huge.  And drank gas like no other (well, ok, there are worse).  We never used all the things that are supposedly good about a minivan because she was so expensive to drive … so we just never drove her.

So I started out yesterday with the mission of make the Odyssey go bye-bye.  And today she did.

She’s a 2010 Honda Insight Hybrid.  (Sean and I have made an agreement to stop all the really bad Insight jokes that have been going around the house over the past couple days.)

It’s so tiny!  Only the Raleigh-area folks will understand this, but can you imagine how much easier it will be to drive down Falls of Neuse/Wake Forest and Six Forks in this?  Aaaahhhhh…. I’ll be able to breathe now.

So pretty.  And gets amazing mileage.  Yay!  I can get to the beach for less than $7 right now.  I want to just lay on the beach and take a nap. <3

I took a couple more pictures of it but they all showed our very messy garage so I won’t be sharing those. :-P

(This also leaves me a day and a half behind schedule for the new patterns…. whoops!)

  1. alissam’s avatar

    alissam on March 31, 2009 at 9:28 pm

    Oooo nice!

  2. Melissa’s avatar

    Melissa on March 31, 2009 at 11:34 pm

    Whaaaaa?

    I think you are CRAZY!!!! I don’t even want to imagine what a pain in the arse it would be to get kids in and out of carseats with those teeny tiny doors!

  3. emily’s avatar

    emily on April 1, 2009 at 6:06 am

    It’s not too different than getting them into Sean’s Accord. Maeve can open the door, climb in and buckle herself halfway. Liam is still catching up gross-motor-wise but I suspect he’ll be able to climb in himself by the end of the year (based on when Maeve did).

  4. Ellen’s avatar

    Ellen on April 1, 2009 at 2:19 pm

    I totally know what you mean about Wake Forrest Rd! I remember learning to drive (in my dad’s lincoln town car no less) and the middle lane from about the old ChiChi’s down to the beltline scared the bejesus out of me! Congrats! I love my odessy, but I do wish it were smaller!