We laid out plans this morning to go take a look at a work van for Brady. Like I’ve said, we’re kind of in a time crunch, but would like to end up with a good van as opposed to a cheap piece of junk. We have a few prospects, but one seemed more hopeful than the others. We called the small dealership to ask a few questions. They were hard to get a hold of, but we remained optimistic. The man then told us they weren’t open yet. It was 9:30 and he said they only opened at 11:00, which was a bit curious with their Facebook page hours stated they opened at 8:00am, and Google said 10:00am. Again, we tried to stay positive. Our kids were already dressed and scratching at the door, so we made a quick Costco run first.
Wavy held the bread.
We got to the dealership around 11:15 and no one was there. However, they pulled up basically right behind us. Brady did a thorough once over of the van and very quickly discovered this place wasn’t worth our time. Not only was the van overpriced according to the black book value, but he noted how many different things were leaking. The salesman wouldn’t entertain a price drop, and wouldn’t look at what Brady had found, so we just left. Which sucked.
On our drive to the dealership, however, we noticed another cargo van on someone’s property with a “for sale” sign on the windshield. So we backtracked to check that out. It was virtually the exact same van, same year, slightly higher mileage, but even higher priced. So we gave up for the day and headed home for lunch.
Lunch went quick and naps were quiet. About mid-afternoon, Cher showed up to help us get ready for – drumroll please – round two of family pictures!! Round one was incredibly successful, and I’m SO excited to make a Christmas card up with them, but we didn’t get many candids at all. We also realized after the fact that we should’ve done a few other combos, like a boy picture and a girl picture. Things like that. So we figured we could dress everyone the same as last time and go run them around outside a little 🙂
The pictures look they were taken on the same day, however it was SO windy today and therefore, quite cold! Not everyone was totally on board, lol! But we rolled with it and got a good handful of super cute pictures! You’ll see all kinds of them soon enough, but not quite yet! I want to choose whats going on our card first! (Who waaaaants one??)
We’ve spent the evening eating perogies, watching a movie, and playing immature games with Cher’s photo shop. While today wasn’t as successful as we had originally hoped, it was still a lovely day, and a nice way to wind down at the end.
Wish us luck tomorrow, as we have another van to check out. The sooner we solve this problem, the better. But we have to be smart, too. Gah!