A New Batmobile

I had many, many adventures in my van...for many, many years....many, many years.  It got us from A to B...most of the time....and sometimes in comfort...sometimes not.  Take for instance the A/C that just couldn't quite get it going.... as a matter of fact, we drove to Norfolk, VA the end of July when I was 8 1/2 months pregnant with Isaac...with no A/C ...that was immense fun.  But I will tell you a secret...you know how many times you normally stop for a bathroom break with three kids??  Well, that just didn't happen on that trip...the poor little troopers rode the entire way home without having to stop because they were sweating it all out!!!  I was an unhappy pregnant woman by the time we finally returned home.  Another thing about having no A/C in a van - when you're driving down the road with the windows down and one of the kids says something from the back, you can't hear....sooooo, you roll up the windows, say, "what?"  ....have the convo and then roll the windows back down before you suffocate.  And then five seconds later, someone else wants to say something, so you continue to repeat the process over and over and over and over and....well, you get it....lol....
Another thing about the van is that the side window would fall out on occasion if you shut the sliding door hard enough....which is for real not cool.....not cool at all.  We had gone to pick some blueberries (I called ahead to make sure they were available) when we arrived they were watering them and so we couldn't pick...WTHeck??? Why not just tell us that on the phone....and that was the second time something similar to this had happened on this particular farm....Darren was not excited...so much so that when he slammed...I mean, shut, the van door, the window fell out...talk about adding insult to injury.  Anyway....
There was also the intermittent windshield wipers that did not possess any intermittent quality whatsoever.  They would fly across the windshield in a herky jerky race to eradicate all rain drops or they would lazily knock one off every two minutes or so....you just never knew....
We blew out a tire on a four lane going 80 miles an hour beside a tractor trailer...that was fun...
We blew out a tire on a side street in VA, thanks to a triangular piece of metal....
The right tire/brakes/something on the right side :)  would get all hot and smoky on occasion....
I actually lost a few pieces going down the road once....looked in the rearview mirror and saw them bouncing on the road....seriously...and no..I didn't stop...it was a busy road....
And speaking of rearview mirrors...it wouldn't stay on the window...so, on occasion, I'd just pick it up off the floor and hold it up to catch a glimpse behind me....LOL...
I could go on but I will spare you...the point of this story is to celebrate the fact that I am the proud new owner of a hot new batmobile!!!  I can't believe we *finally* gave in and got a sparkly new vehicle...I'm so excited....I just had to share....  <3