Plans change!

On Easter Good Friday, we went to church. On the way there, our Blazer was making all sorts of clunky, weird noises. Oh oh! On the way home... yikes. We were wondering if we'd make it. Apparently, we had some antifreeze leak into our engine. Not a good thing. Marten decided that we weren't going to put any more money into it. We had owned it for 8 years and it was time for a new vehicle, not a new engine. I must admit... I was a little sad. I loved the Blazer. Nicolle was going to learn to drive on that car and we'd buy a new one then for us. That was the plan.

Plans change. We started looking right away. The blazer had a lot of bells and whistles and it was going to be hard to replace it. I knew I wanted a 4WD and leather heated seats for the winter. Marten wanted a Bose 6 CD music center. We wanted something 2005 or older and under 100,000 km. Then we decided that it would be awesome to have a 7 seater vehicle. The week before, Nicolle wanted to take 2 friends to youth group and we couldn't fit everyone it. We had to tell Heather she couldn't come. :( Marten did NOT want a van, so the search was on. We narrowed it down pretty quickly because Marten also wanted a GMC or Chev. We decided on an Envoy XL SLT. Of course, there were none in the Maritimes to buy. Sigh. Hillsides found one a week later for us in Ontario. Pretty scary buying a vehicle sight unseen. The pictures looked nice, though. And it didn't hurt that it was a 2006 Denali with 76,000 km with all options.

It arrived on PEI on Monday and we scooted to town to test drive it. Wow! Nice car. We were thrilled and bought it. They kept it til Wednesday to check it all out and make it an 'Optimum Vehicle' (something about a 150 point check list and GMC warranty... blah, blah). Then I had to drive it home in the rain. Sigh -- dirty already. Doesn't take long on PEI. Here are some pictures:





and the inside:






Nice, eh? Yup... we're spoiled. God is good to us! And the best news... Heather got to come to youth group yesterday!