The Final Vote

Both Kristen and I would like to thank all of you for your ideas about the name of the new car. After many sleepless nights, we have narrowed the field to 5 names. Everyone has one vote. After the votes have been counted, we will choose the name we like the most, but your votes could help us a lot. We want to know what the people want. So here are the finalists (they are in no particular order)...

1. Blade (Submitted by Kristen)

2. Darth Vader-Darth for short (submitted by Dad)

3. The Black Panther (submitted by Liz)

4. Black Jack (Submitted by Mark)

5. Jenkins (submitted by Adam)

There were others that we really liked, but these are the top five. Please cast your votes so our car can finally be free.

The New Car

Kristen and I just finished a 3 weeklong road trip where we went almost 3000 miles to 5 different states. It was a lot of fun, but we realized that our car (named Black Ninja) just ain’t going to cut it anymore. Maybe it was the fact that it maxed out at 40 miles an hour up vail pass, or maybe it was the strange noises it began to make with the endless dashboard lights that began to light up everyday. I don’t really know what it was, but both Kristen and I had the feeling that “Ninja’s” time was running short, so we began looking at cars. We wanted a new or almost new car with very low mileage on it so that it could last 5 years or so. We also wanted a big enough car so as to be able to handle a baby seat somewhere down the line (not yet, but sometime in the next five yearsJ). As I began looking I realized that cars like that don’t grow on trees, in other words, they ain’t cheap. I went to probably 6 different dealerships and spent a good 4 hours researching different cars on the internet. We finally found a car (it was actually at the first dealership that we went to) that fit the description. It was a 2006 Kia Soreto. It had only 14,500 miles on it and had been a dealership car, which means the title of the car had never been owned by anyone. I saw that Kristen fell in love with it after we test drove it. It is a 4X4, automatic with an engine over twice the size as Ninja’s. Kristen loved the car but I loved the price more. It was a little more than we wanted to pay, but it was a much better car than we expected to get. After a few more days of shopping and bargaining(which I dislike very much) we finally bought it on Friday of this week at $16, 300. We are really happy and hope that it will be the car we expect it to be.

Now we have a real dilemma. What are we to name the car? I will post a few picture of the car so that you can see it, deliberate, and decide on the perfect name. The winner will get $1000 dollars in the form of Benjamins. But that is only if I really love it. If I just really like it then I will give you a high five with some popcorn and pop in the morning the next time I see you. So let the naming begin!

Also, a few names have already been suggested.

Adam…………………….The Black Widow (According to him this would require a red hourglass painted on the car. That’s ok with me if he pays)
Drew…………………….The Black Plague or if that is too scary Fred

Note-black does not have to be included in the name, Adam and I just think alike.

The sun was really bright and we timed the picture poorly, but look at the space in the trunck.