Goodbye Paseo

The month of huge changes continues with the relinquishing of my beloved Toyota Paseo which I owned for 11 years. With the arrival of baby #3 we will have officially outgrown this two-door four seater. I know it's an inanimate object but I've driven around in the thing for 1/3 of my life so it was odd to see it drive away without me this afternoon. The new owner is my nephew BG who was all of six years old when I got the car. It's his first car. If I can't have the car, it is some consolation to still have it in the family.

Gregg and BG arrived last night and drove off to Utah with intermittent clutch popping and squealing (BG is learning how to drive a stick shift). BG was kind enough to pose with my automobile for a final time. Doesn't the car look great for being 15? I told BG as long as he pulls up for dates with the driver side showing, girls will be impressed.

The picture below doesn't show it very well but I gave the car the mother of all dents on the passenger side one day at the mall. Note to self, if you hit a large object STOP the car.... don't continue to drive forward at full speed!

The kids may not remember this little car in the future. However, Andy is happy in the present to know he won't have to ride with the wind blowing in his face and his mother spraying him with a spray bottle when it's hot. Though the car runs well but the air conditioning was a casualty of age.

So that was a nice big change. What's next? I think I'll try moving into a house and owning a van. Nothing like having more kids to push us into all sorts of oldish changes.