And Behind This Curtain...A New Car!

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This morning, our plan was to go to Honda of San Marcos to talk to them about the deal they had offered via email on the new 2011 Honda Odyssey - a minivan. Evan got up first, as usual. We got up and started getting everything ready to go. I had to put the car seats back in the car as we had taken them out when the seat was fixed on Thursday. Just before we left, we woke Noah up, who took forever to fall asleep last night.

We drove down to San Marcos. I was skeptical that they would hold up their end of the deal. On the way down I was negotiating with another dealer in north San Antonio. We got there and took a look at the van which is a dark gray color. I gave them the keys to the Pilot to look at. It was the trade-in that I was skeptical about. They had offered more than anyone else for our Pilot without having looked at it. One of the Austin dealers offered us $1500 less for our trade-in yesterday. After about 10 minutes of looking at our car, they came back and said they would honor the deal. We immediately started the paperwork.

The whole thing was very smooth and the boys behaved. Once we signed all the papers, I put the car seats in the van and we started WALL-E on the DVD player while the salesman showed us how to use the car. Noah got kind of cranky during this part. I'm sure he was hungry although we had given him lots of snacks and at that point, I think he wanted to go. I can't blame him, I wanted to get going too.

I would definitely recommend Honda of San Marcos. They didn't use any typical salesman lines and they didn't do that "let me talk to my manager" bit which is annoying. It was very straightforward.

After we left the dealership, we went to McDonald's for the boys. They were happy there.

We drove home and relaxed a bit. The boys were busy playing outside and then running around upstairs.

For dinner, we went over to Pei Wei so we could eat quickly. Evan and Noah had gotten $20 gift certificates to Toys 'R Us for Hanukkah and we promised them they could pick out toys since they were good today. Pei Wei is in the same shopping center. The dinner took a long time because the boys took forever to eat.

At Toys 'R Us, Evan got two Star Wars guys and Noah got a Star Wars guy along with a box of Lego's.

We are now home and the boys are very tired but they are fighting going to sleep.

Until next time...