New Car!!!

We bought a car! And we're soooo excited and love it. It's a 2007 Hyundai Sonata, 19,000, and we got a pretty good deal on it if you ask me. Matt picked it up yesterday and neither us have wanted to let the other one drive it. :)

We're going to sell both the Cougar and truck (no we didn't do cash for clunkers ... it was a private seller). The Cougar's been struggling ... badly. Here's its long list of issues:

Oil Gasket leaking

Power steering pump leaking

Water Pump leaking

Heater and A/C broken ... no worky

Driver side window won't roll up (Matt tried for 3 hours to make it come up and it wouldn't budge ... that was his breaking point to get a new car)

Significant crack in windshield .... that appeared out of nowhere

Needs a new gas cap ... we left it in Scipio

We might see what we can do to fix it up and sell it .... or donate it to the kidney foundation ... whichever one comes out to more money of course.

But if you want to buy a '95 Chevy it's up for grabs.

We're so excited to have a reliable car that we won't have to worry about whether or not it is going to make it there or not. Especially since I'll be doing a bit of traveling by myself during this season for games and such. It really takes a load off our backs ... or at least mine anyways. The other plus is it'll turn into a good family car when that time comes around someday. We're planning on having for a super long time and absolutely running this car into the ground.

Anyways .... we're just so happy to have it and that we found a great deal. Yay for us!!

San Diego Day 2

Sunday, July 19

We went to church at a random ward that was close by and you'll never guess who just happened to be there ....... Elder Holland! He wasn't on the program or anything but sat on the stand with his wife and spoke. It was really cool ... and I thought it was interesting that he chose to speak to the youth of the ward and tell them about the need for preparation in their lives because of things going on in the world and yet to come and they'll need that strength. He also spoke of the tenderness of President Hinckley and the passing of authority he witnessed between him and President Monson. It was just cool ... we were really lucky and blessed that we chose to go to that ward. There was a line of about a bajillion people after sacrament meeting waiting to shake his hand so no we didn't shake his shand but still ....

We stayed at a little private studio apt we found on craigslist 2 seconds from the Mission Bay beach. He gave us 2 vintage bikes to ride around for the week (and we're talkin as rusty vintage as they come). We went for a bike ride and ended up at the Pacific Beach and admired the ocean and walked around. We went on the pier and watched the sunset .... and I took A LOT of pictures. I couldn't decide which ones to post ... so I posted all of them! Enjoy ...

The view from the pier and some random people fishing

Surfers

Surfing Dumbledore ... notice the piece of hair that literally goes down to his calf

I was having fun with the settings on my camera