This weekend has been fabulous! We took a trip to Charleston to pick up my new car. I have been driving the Buick for a while and I have really REALLY disliked it. It was too huge, though it served it's purpose well for Anna's first year. We took it three times to PA, but I have to say I really didn't like driving it. I have always been a "car" person not a big SUV person. So, I was ready to get back to a car....especially one with a manual transmission. I am not a fan of an automatic. So, I have ALWAYS wanted a MINI Cooper but I knew they were completely impractical for a family....but then last October, I discovered the MINI Clubman (I am part of MINI's email updates) and I knew I would eventually want to have that car as my family car. It is basically an extended version of the Mini Cooper. It has three doors (an Anna door) and extra storage space in the boot. Matt and I worked really hard to save money ..... in other words limiting our eating out and trips, eating cheap meals at home, and using coupons every chance we got to save money to pay off our Buick. After we did that, we started the search for my Clubman. There were three different dealers within 100 miles that were bartering for our business which really helped us get the best side of the car buying deal.
After we picked up my car.....we decided to take Anna to the Charleston aquarium. She absolutely LOVED the big tanks and the fish. She would squeal and laugh when they would swim by her stroller. We were so glad we decided to detour through downtown and risk the crowds from Spoletto. She was in toddler heaven!!!
Matt driving the "oompa loompa" car haha
Here is a video of Anna enjoying the wind blowing through her hair from the open sunroof!
It was such a great weekend!
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