So we met up with a salesman, Mark, who reminded us of our pal Joe back in SoCal. We liked him immediately. We first had our eyes set on a used 2008 Toureg, but it turned out to be WAY too expensive for our taste. We wanted to look at other options and started to make our way down towards the Routan’s (VW’s mini van) and Katie started to lose it! She kept squeezing my hand and shaking her head… but I’m not getting it. I was warm on the idea, she wasn’t, so we moved on. Maybe after the second kid is born we’ll explore the mini van option, but until then, we’ll stick with the SUV range!

We finally made our way to Tiguan country, VW’s mini SUV line. Katie and I both were very fond of the Tiguan SE Wolfsburg Edition and started to wheel and deal. We couldn’t reach an agreement on Friday, so we left having no intention of pursuing a deal any further. We still had a very low mileage Jetta that was in great shape, nothing lost.

The next morning we go in for service and are met by the sales manager and finance manager as soon as we walk in the door. Before service begins, they want one last chance to see if we can strike a deal. For 30+ minutes options are thrown at us but until they can make a deal fit within our parameters, it isn’t going to happen. In the end, the sales manager works out a deal that not only puts our monthly payments below target, but also nets us a healthy amount for our trade in.

While the Tiguan (yet to be named by Katie) is being prepped, we said good bye to our reliable Jetta “Gretta”, cleaned her up and wished her luck with her new owner. We grew very attached to the Jetta, I mean it’s the car we drove to get married in. The vast majority of our Disneyland trips were made in her. Yes, we know it’s just a car but she’s been such a big part of our life.

The next day as part of my birthday present Josh took thursday off and we went to DISNEYLAND!!!!!!!!!!!! We got our season passes and started out in the park. Josh hadn’t been there in over ten years so it was like going with somebody who had never been. Later in the day Jacob and Tak joined us and we ran the park! We had an AMAZING time. We even got neck straps for our passes and are going to start collecting a new pin for every visit. My first pin is one that says “my boyfriend is a pirate”…which is true…he is the only person I know who knows all the words to the Pirates song. He also bought me a medallion from the pirates ride…we are going to have it engraved with our names and the date…something to remember the day forever. I’m excited to go back after the move. We had the best time!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last night we had a great night…Josh’s brother Joel came over and had dinner and hung out with us. We had a great time talking and joking and playing the Wii of course. Joel is a lot of fun and the two of them together is hilarious!!!!!! Hopefully he will move back soon so we can hang out more.

Today…I bought a sweet little girl named Gretta…she is my new Jetta. I had been hemming and hawing over getting her for a long time and had been trying to sell my car…and today was the day. We went the dealership and got good deals all around and tonight we drove home in her. She is graphite blue and oh so pretty. She is my first car purchase and I’m so stoke about it! Who wants a ride?

Now that we have had a week of fun we have to buckle down as Josh moves into our new apartment in two weeks and I move in two weeks later. So we have a lot to do.

Today was quite the day for Josh and me. First we started with a lovely pancake breakfast…most of you probably don’t know this but almost every weekend Josh makes me pancakes for breakfast. He has a special pancake skill that makes them taste like restaurant pancakes…not the brick like ones from home. Super delicious!!!!!!!

After breakfast we decided to take on the task getting a new a mattress, mainly due to the fact that my mattress has a very large divet in the middle and when we sleep we end up rolling in on each other. Not so much fun. So we went and got this scan thing done at the Sit n Sleep. Its kinda weird. You go in and lay on this mattress thing they have that scans your body and tells you what sort of mattress you need…its pretty rad really because it allows you to not have to lay on five thousand mattresses to find what you need. We tried out like ten and then found “the one” and bought it….WOO HOO!!!! But here’s the thing…in the purchasing of a new mattress we decided to get the California King. Thing thing is HUGE!! Its going to be soooooooooooooo nice! SO…the upgrade in size of the bed means NEW BEDDING!!!! Which leads us to our next adventure of the day…….

THE MALL!!! Yup you got it…I got Josh to go to a mall. Of course this meant we had to go to the Sears tool department first and buy him some new fun things, but soon after we were rocking the Macy’s bedding department with full force. We picked out the most awesome green bedding set. Now to Josh bedding means a “bed in a bag” from Walmart, and to me it means paying lots of money for everything individually. So when Sparky over here realized that just a fitted sheet alone cost around $80 on sale he about wet himself. Once he got over that and the sales woman and I explained to him how much more comfortable he will be in the end (aka 600 thread count Egyptian cotton sheets) he got over it. So, after we piled up everything we needed and wanted to make up the bed (sheets, pillow cases, shams, dust ruffles…none of which he has any idea what it is) went to pay for it and ooops card is declined….well shit! So I call the bank to find out whats happened because I knew full well that the money was in there. They told me that my account was coming up has being flagged as “fraud” so I verified who I was and that the purchases were approved and they popped back saying “sorry you have money but you can’t use it due to a limit on your debit card” to which I replied “if your going to impose a new limit on my spending don’t you think you should INFORM your customers” uh yeah…what a douche! OH and did I mention that this was all AFTER I had waited for a half hour in line with people hating me for taking up the register. You know I have made a million purchases when there was no money in my account and now that I can actual cover a bedding purchase they won’t let me!!!! So Josh and I run back to the house to get a checkbook and when we return she runs the check through and wait…wait….wait….DECLINED! HOLY MOTHER OF BANKING GOD!! Josh and I call the company who declined the check…turns out that it was declined because I had never written a check to Macys before…..uh seriously! I was SO SO SO angry by this point. I have the money and these bastards won’t let me spend it. I finally decided to apply for the credit card which thankfully was approved and now we have all kinds of fun bedding….but Good god what and ordeal.

Then we decided to drive out to Thousand Oaks to look at Jetta’s. I’m getting a new car soon and the Jetta was a front runner….now after the amazing test drive…I’m sold! This car is so so so rad. I will go back in a couple weeks and get it….YAY!!!!

On the way back home we stopped at a restaurant called Famous Daves. Its a BBQ place somewhere in the middle of TO and here. I had never had BBQ before and man was I missing out. This place is AMAZING!!! Ribs and catfish on the same plate…..soooooooooooo delicious.

More importantly than anything else today though was the conversation that Josh and I had on the way to TO. We have officially decided to move in with each other. I’m so excited. I hope he is too.

Well I suppose I have bored you all to tears with our day…it may read boring, but it was anything but. I have to go play with my new bedding now

Katie