Meet Stella

I know that it's absolutely pretentious to name your car.
But I love. her.
Love.
Her.

I had been researching SUVs for a while and knew I'd narrowed it down to a few, but was pretty much sold on the 'Gator bc of all the features (mainly, the seats fold down into the floor, and in others, they don't... that was a winner for me), but it has everything else that all other luxury vehicles had and cost $$$ less. I went down to San Antonio with a family friend last Saturday to test drive the Cadillac, Lincoln, Landrover and Lexus. I was looking at 2010's for most of them. But after all our searching and testing, I was disappointed that not ONE of the 2010 on the lot had all of the features I wanted in ONE package. So the saleman took us upstairs into the garage suggesting I give up my hopes for a black exterior/tan interior. I was sad, but willing to look at a couple silver ones. That's when I spotted her.
She was a 2011. Brand spankin' new. And my friend Janet warned me, but when we saw the sticker price, we were surprised that it wasn't that much $$ than the used 2010. I took a peek inside and the interior was 100x supreme and beautiful than the tan 2010 interiors. I loved her! I wanted her. And we knew we could talk Mark down a few k's. He began opening up some 2010 silver models but I said "uh-uh. I want her." and he said they had literally driven her in from Houston an hour earlier and he'd have to find the keys. Took 30 minutes and he finally did. When I got inside, Janet and I looked at eachother and said "yep". It had everything on the package I wanted. So we went to lunch and developed a plan. Came back, made our deal, shook hands, signed a check and she was MINE!

All of the seats fold down with the push of a button. I love that. And they fold into the floor, so no climbing over them. The seats have seat warmers AND seat coolers! In Texas? That counts. I ordered custom head rests which come in next week. They'll each have DVD/tv mounted into them, and when I drive down for the marathon, I'll drop her off for them to install them. This will be great bc each girl can watch their own show, no arguments or taking turns. With head phone... which means *I* can listen to my music! Yay!
I am still figuring out all the other gidgets and gizmos with navigation and music/sound system, but it's very cool. It also syncs up to my iphone and ipod and is all hands free. Which means I have to learn technology at some point.