Run to the hills...

When we first met Camille loved to brag about how cool her sporty little white Mazda Protege was. She would tell Adam that it had a wicked spoiler on the back and very easily could have been one of the cars in "The Fast and the Furious." Her favorite feature was the sun roof, because Camille would roll it back and let the wind whisp through her hair, frolicking and laughing at all the other cars as she weaved between traffic. (Note: you can see Adam's totally cool truck in this picture too.)Adam's side of the story of the Mazda Protege is a bit different than the love-fest that Camille has in her mind. The one word Adam uses to describe the Mazda is "CRAMPED." When Adam would drive it was almost like his knees were up around his ears. He has more than a few dents on his forehead from blasting the roof as he got in or out. Despite its small stature, it got great gas mileage, and got us to Laramie and back.We have had some great times in this little car. Camille has truly loved this little car and it has served our little family well....BUT......If you look at the back of Camille's car, you will see the spoiler. The key part is the "SPOIL."Camille got her Dream car this past week. We are doing our best to stimulate the economy...actually, it is a Toyota...so, we are stimulating the global economy. It is a 4Runner, which in Adam's opinion is the SUV to all Granolas/Tree Huggers/Environmentalists.

Adam fully expects to see Camille step out of the 4Runner wearing Birkenstocks, a long levi skirt, straight plain hair, and a tie-dye T-shirt (heck, she could even have hairy armpits). As we write Camille is looking at purchasing a variety of bumper stickers that say things like, "Save a deer, kill a hunter," and "Whales have feelings too." The only saving grace to the granola car is the fact that we have a major grill on the front of it. We did not install this, we were lucky enough to have it included. Adam is ready to take this baby on the open road and take out some wildlife...he supposes that it is anti-tree hugger enough to make the car a little more manly. He also fully intends to place a Christmas Wreath on the grill during the Holidays so the Phillips family can look as cool as the other truckers on I-80. Camille was so overcome with joy she couldn't keep her thumbs down.

It was a good thing we got the 4Runner when we did. In the past two weeks we have been blasted with snow and the little Mazda has been stuck in our driveway three times. We woke up the day after buying the 4Runner to a load of snow. Camille was able to safely drive to work...however, there is no sunroof with this vehicle...so there was no whisping, singing, or frolicking.