As per Alyssia

I started this entry almost two months ago, thinking I'd get around to taking pictures of my pretty new car, but alas, I've been remiss. So you'll have to deal with the pic I found on the Honda website.

Click on White Diamond Pearl to get the full effect.

Meet Bella. I named her that because she sparkles like a vampire in the sunlight. (If you're not up on the whole Twilight thing, well, let's just say that Bella means beauty in Italian).

This is my new baby. We paid off our SUV with our tax refund this year and decided to trade my 7-year-old sedan for Bella here. Isn't she pretty? V6, leather interior, 6 CD changer, great gas mileage, much bigger than my other sedan - we can actually fit Emma's rear-facing carseat in the back and Scott can still move his seat back as far as he needs for his 6'6" height.

Scott and I dropped the kids off at my parents' on Friday, April 3rd, so we could have an "us" day, which we haven't done in awhile. We do date nights all the time, but a whole day to ourselves - well, it's been awhile. So we sat at lunch trying to figure out what to do and one of us (I don't remember who) said, "Let's go test drive cars!"

Actually, before that I said, "Let's go to the pound!" Thank god I have more restraint when it comes to animals or we would have ended up with a dog AND a car in the same day.

Anyway, we went to Honda, we test drove a demo model (one that the managers drove around so it had 4,000 miles on it) and I LOVED it. I hit the gas getting on the freeway and literally felt giddy. If the salesman hadn't been in the backseat I would have giggled. It was FUN.

Long story short, after making the salesguy wait while we went to check out Toyota Camrys (nice car, but not tall enough for Scott) we made our way back to Honda and went through the 3-hour process of haggling, waiting, haggling, waiting, paperwork paperwork paperwork DRIVE HOME YAY!

And I've been driving her and loving her for almost two months now.

And the bastards put a dent in her. Double bastards. Grr.