After much planning and research, I finally got a brand-new car. I’ve been driving my sister’s 2000 Civic for the past year, but in two weeks she will be coming to reclaim it. My car previous to the Civic was a 1988 Ford Tempo, which has pretty much seen its last days. Today my parents came up to help me with my purchase. We ate lunch at Red Robin in Santa Barbara, and then made our way down to Ventura’s VW dealership to pickup my car. I purchased a 2002 Jetta GLS 1.8T with automatic transmission (I can’t drive stick yet) in reflex silver with grey interior, monsoon sound, and luxury package—which means I have a sunroof. Even though I now own the car that every daddy’s girl sorority chick drives, I still think it is cute, and I like it better than my sister’s car. The most amusing part of getting the car is that they give you an instruction video on it, which I have yet to watch.

The process surprisingly took only two hours—I was expecting the paperwork to take much longer. After we drove back to SB, my mom had us stop at Coldstone’s for some ice cream. As usual, I got chocolate ice cream with peppermint patties. :) Anyway, for the moment I am very pleased with my first new car purchase.

That’s about all I have to say about that for now, as I do not wish to go overboard talking about all the cool things I like about my car. I like new things!

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