Brian the Scion

It's been a pretty busy and stressful week in the McEvilly house. We have finally unpacked all of the boxes and have our house feeling like home with a dining room table and chairs completing the main part of the house. I have also just taken delivery of a shiny new washing machine and tumble dryer from Best Buy, the dryer has a small dent in the top which they kindly offered us a $50 gift card for or a replacement, now seeing as though we haven't done any washing since Texas we decided to take the gift card.

This isn't the only new addition to the family household as yesterday we brought a new car. Aelisa's old Passat, Keasby (may he rest in peace) made an awful noise before expelling a lot of smoke from the exhaust on Saturday evening whilst we were out doing our big shop. The smoke didn't stop and we had to take it to a mechanic on Sunday, who told us that the turbo had given up the ghost and although they could repair it we should go to the VW dealership and have the car looked at as they would do a professional job. So yesterday we went there and left it with them while we looked at some cars in their lot as we were thinking of trading in Keasby due to the huge expense he has been to fix.




Brian the Scion in his spot outside our little house

  While looking around the lot we got talking to the salesman who let us test drive a couple of cars and chatted with us. After test driving a little red Toyota Scion he got a call from the mechanic who said there were enough things wrong with the car that he wouldn't even dream of driving it himself. The turbo, engline, wheels and other important stuff needed replacing and it was going to cost upwards of $9000 to repair. So, that made our decision easy and within 2 hours we were home with Brian the Scion, a 2008 1.8L (apparently that's small in America) little gem of a car. We named him after the salesman who hlped us through the whole confusing process as it just happened to rhyme with Scion.

Next on the list of things to do is get Liam a visa so he can start to work and stop playing Fifa 12 all day. I am on XBox Live add me BlueMcEvilly.