Swagger

One Tuesday I had the car while Addilyn and I went to play group and ran errands. We waited for Scott to get off work in the parking lot like usual. Once Scott got in the car we took off and just about 100 yards past the parking lot, our car stop accelerating. Everything was still going, but the car itself. Press on the gas, it'd rev, but nothing. So we coasted over to the side of the road and into a dingy driveway of this bar by his work. Three hours later the tow truck finally came and dropped our car off at a body shop that had been recommended to us. Our home teacher took us home. The next morning Scott got a ride to work and then called the shop we had dropped the car off at. Come to find out, they don't work on Mistubishi cars. Excellent. So we asked where they would recommend to get our transmission fixed (since that was obviously the issue). We then proceeded to tow it there. Three days after it broke down, we had a final diagnoses. $2S,800 would rebuild our transmission. Uhm, no thanks. We bought the car for $3k four years ago- it wasn't worth it. We just went over 200k miles. It's lived it's life. So now it sits in our driveway awaiting it's final destination. (My money is on the pull apart junk yard). For a week one of Scott's coworkers let us borrow his truck. That was so awesome of him. This meant that the second car we were planning on buying in the next month or two was going to be bought within the week. No pressure right? Wrong! This is especially true because we knew exactly the car we wanted. With our research we found that a Toyota Sienna was our van-to-be. 2005-2009 models are especially difficult to find because they are highly coveted used van. But we found one. Our one day of car shopping, at the very end, we found it. 68k miles, 1 user, 2008 Toyota Sienna, our Swagger Wagon.