My Second Chance

There was a magazine ad that I had in my room right after college that said:

"Before the Spouse, Before the House, Before the Kids, You Get One Chance....Mazda Miata"

I have looked for that ad online, but I can't find it.  I did find this one though for a Mazda MX-5 which says the same thing, a little less eloquently.

Small print says....There's Only Room for Two

Well, thanks to my wonderful, stupendous, fantastic, tremendous, spectacular and very handsome husband, drum roll please......................

I love second chances!!!!!!!

It's a 1996 Mazda Miata, called a Mazda Roadster over here.  It has 54,000 miles and is our extremely impractical second car!!!!! 

Mick's secretary has a friend out in town that has a car business.  He came to Mick's office to do the title transfer on our minivan and Mick wrote down "Mazda Miata, under $3,000" for him and he called him the next day!  $2,900 and they are paying some kind of Japanese fee for a year that is $300.  SUCH A DEAL! 

I took all of the girls, except for Gigi, she always gets the short end of the stick....first having our Disney passes end when she was two months old and now this....on rides and they felt like they were the coolest kids in town....which of course, they were! 

At the end Mick took Claire for one last ride and Olivia was soooooooooo funny and said, "I want to do this...."

".....when they come back, like they do at Disney!"

Parker Extraordinaire!

One thing that I find interesting is all of the Japanese road signs and the beautiful, confusing language symbols.  When a car is owned by an American military or Department of Defense employee, the license plate has a Y or an A at the beginning, like this.

 and when it's not a Department of Defense person, then it has a Japanese symbol instead like this.

Frank kept the car for the weekend to get us our "Y" or "A" license plate and make sure it's all tuned up.  I'm a HUGE Frank fan and an even bigger Mick Wagoner fan!!!!!!!

Here's my beautiful car!  (Don't think we'll be taking Claire out in it very often, especially with the top down!)

Thank you, thank you, thank you Mick!!!!!!!!!!