Bye Bye FiFi ~ Hello Bella!!!

We were very excited this morning ~ I had to brave the rain and clear out the old car ~ which we had affectionately called FiFi over the years (it is a Renault ~ therefore French and the kids decided that it was a good name!!).........

Then it was time to head off and collect the new car......

Here are some final photos of FiFi ~ as we were braving the awful rain this morning!!!




The children were quite funny ~ they have become quite attached to the old car and were sad to see it go!! I am afraid that I cannot get emotional over a car ~ although it has done us well over the years!!

And (drum roll please.......) ~ here is our new car........................................

My nice shiny black car!! I did want to call the new car Edward (as I am now a totally addicted fan of the Twilight books!!) ~ but as all our cars are usually girls (tee hee )~ we have called her Bella!!!!!! (I know ~ we are a very strange family ~ we always name our cars !!!!!!)

So far I have not driven it far ~ we bunny hopped out of the garage forecourt (ha ha ) ~ then I had to go to the petrol station (where I had some trouble getting the petrol cap off !!) ~ then we drove straight home (about 4 miles!!) ~ so I am not used to it yet!! I kept putting the wind screen wipers on instead of the indicator and when we came to a junction, I thought that we had stalled as the car was sooooo quiet!! We are going out a bit later to town (where I have to park the thing tee hee!!!) ~ and I will have a bit of a drive around to get used to it!!

I am very pleased with it and the children are very excited about it all ~ they wanted to stay out sitting in it when we came home!!!! I will update you all later on how the parking goes!!! XXXX