Goodbye Tahoe...HELLO Yukon!

After 13 years of having the Tahoe in our family we bid it farewell and welcomed a gently used 2005 GMC Yukon! It was bittersweet since the Tahoe has been on so many family trips with us. From swim meets, to recruiting trips, to family trips up to TN, and the numerous trips back and forth from Pensacola to Auburn and back it was time to cut ties with the Tahoe. In the end the Tahoe's AC stopped working (this is absolute torture when you live in the lovely South where the heat can get over 100 with the heat index in the summertime), I needed to replace a couple of tires, and some other expensive fixes that were just getting to be too high for us to pay in one service.

 Jeremy and I were trying to make our Tahoe last until Kai moved in to Kindergarten, but these past couple of months it seems like we have had to get it serviced on and received quotes on how much to fix it. The cost of fixing it was outweighing the reason to keep it rather than trade it in. I found a phenomenal deal with Lynch Nissan over the weekend (I had been casually looking for about a month and a half) and showed Jeremy online and we decided that we needed to test drive it soon since a deal like that wouldn't be there for long. I loved it! However, they weren't going to come down to what we wanted to spend on a payment, so I test drove a Nissan Murano. It too was a great vehicle, but after having a large car like a Tahoe it was hard to imagine all of our stuff in a smaller space. I sat and talked with the salesman to compare the two and we finally came to a mutual agreement on price that would work for both of us. After 3 hours at the dealership and closing time right rapidly approaching I filled out all the preliminary paperwork and left them to detail the Yukon one last time before picking it up the next day.

I went home and cleaned out the remaining stuff we had in the Tahoe. Yesterday at lunchtime I received a call from Rob at Lynch saying that everything had processed perfectly and that my Yukon would be ready to be picked up at 2pm! YAY!!