The case of the switching Saturns

Last week was stressful.  Tuesday was a normal day, I worked from home and noticed that we were out of dog food.  Dan was getting off at 4:30 that day so he offered to pick some up on his way home.  He called me when he left the bank.  About 20 minutes later I got another phone call.  I assumed he was calling to say he was on his way home but it went like this instead - 

Dan - "We have a little problem here." 

Jamie - thinks that the store is out of our brand of dog food. "Ok, what's going on?"

Dan - "I got in an accident."

Jamie - "You've got to be kidding me."

I'm pretty sure you can guess where the rest of this conversation went.  No, no one was hurt.  No, no one was issued a ticket. Yes, it was probably our fault but the insurance companies can battle that out.  I looked at it a little bit that night but the next morning got the full effect of what really happened.

Wednesday we dropped it off at collision center and waited.

Thursday the insurance company said they'd like to total it out.  We decided that while we weren't planning on getting a different vehicle, the Saturn (or sad-turd as referred to in our house) wasn't really going to be a safe place to put our baby, even if we had it fixed. Looked at cars that night.

Friday, Danny asked for the afternoon off so we could continue our search.  We drove (well, Danny did) countless vehicles.  Dan set his heart on a few that we fortunately decided that were not going to be appropriate for our growing family.  We ended the night thinking we had probably found our next car but wanted to sleep on it and do a little more research. Then we had a great dinner with Jim and Rie.

Saturday found us the proud owners of a new car.

Yes, it's another Saturn.  No, I have not driven it yet but Danny seems to love it.  It has plenty of room inside for a carseat and the pups.  Danny is actually impressed that he has plenty of leg room without pushing the seat all the way back.  We're looking forward to taking lots more family road trips in this car since we took our first one this weekend!  More on that later!