Our first week in Texas

Our first week was pretty uneventful. We got settled and tried to figure out how to live in a hotel with 100 or so of our "closest" non-English speaking friends. We were so happy to have a suite with 2 queen beds so we wouldn't have to pull out the sleeper sofa for Mollie every night. On Tuesday, Mollie and I met a nice lady with a granddaughter Mollie's age. We went swimming with them the next day and were so happy to be entertained for a couple hours. Then on Thursday (I think, all the days run together) Troy came home and got on Kelly Blue book to see how much the van's trade in value was. We found out that the trade in is more than we paid. Huh...now what should we do? Go look at new cars of course! haha We went to dinner and then to the Chevy lot to look at Tahoes. I was just going along for the ride and to get out of the hotel. Afterall, we just bought a new car and why would we want to go through that again? I drove a couple of Tahoes and was ready to go but instead we went inside with the salesman. Yes, I think we are losing our minds. It was getting close to Mollie's bath/bedtime so we told the man to get the numbers together and we would comeback on Saturday.

On Friday night we had dinner with some Ft Gordon friends. It was so good to see some familiar faces and Mollie had a great time playing with Danny and Luke. We all decided to go to lunch on the River the next day. On the way back from lunch we decided to stop by the GMC lot to see what they had. I drove the Yukon and Yukon XL, both were very nice. We were there for awhile and were offered a really good deal on a demo. I pointed out a few spots on the carpet to Troy so he asked the salesman if they would clean it up. That joker's response was "yeah we'll clean it up but it's just going to get dirty again". Really? Are you kidding me? All I could do was laugh, and laugh, and laugh. We told the GMC guy up front that we had an appointment with the Chevy guy at 6 but when we tried to leave he got pretty mad. They offered us a great deal on a Yukon XL so we told them that we were still going to go to the Chevy lot and that we would come back if they couldn't give us a better deal. So we went to the Chevy lot and met with Terry. We decided that the Tahoe didn't have enough space so we drove the Suburban. We went inside and started wheeling and dealing. Troy knew what he wanted and he wasn't settling for anything less. The offices inside were all open kind of like cubicles so you could hear everything that was going on. So the second time our salesman went back to his manager we could hear everything including the manager getting upset and raising his voice. Not a good idea! Troy looked at me and said, "we're done, let's go". So I got my purse and diaper bag together while Troy marched right over to the manager's office and set him straight. I went outside to the van and waited and waited. Then finally Troy came out with a big smile on his face. I rolled down the window and he said "I got what I wanted so I'm going back inside to sign the papers". WHAT!!?? I definitely didn't think we were actually going to trade the van in. I guess I was wrong. The whole process was pretty humorous. Needless to say we are now the PROUD owners of a black Chevy Suburban that we will have until it blows up.