The Best Kind of Prize is a SURPRISE!

This week has been full of surprises to say the least! To start out, Mike decided to come home for the long weekend. I was excited to see him again. On Friday morning, I went to get the mail and saw this...
I called Mike and told him it was a good thing he was coming home so he could help me change a tire. On Saturday, we changed the tire and found a huge bolt sticking out. Luckily, we had the extra tire on the back of the CR-V. We were really hoping to get more use out of this car, but the car was using us! We decided to drive it until the end of May and then get a new car before residency started. However... This '09 Nissian Altima was begging to be ours. We traded in our CR-V, which was a SERIOUS work-in-progress, and got an amazing deal on this bad boy! Mike is quite a shmoozer when he has to be. We were so excited to have such reliable, dependable, beautiful...

SERIOUSLY? SERIOUSLY! When we bought the car (Monday), there was a light on the dash indicating that there was something wrong with the tire pressure. The guy told us that it had been checked and re-checked and nothing was wrong. They couldn't reset the light there at their dealership and we had to take it to a Nissian dealer to do it. I guess something was wrong! Ben and I drove down to Independence Grove to take his pictures with a friend, and when I got out of the car, I saw this! Needless to say, I was pretty livid. Mike called the guy and he felt really bad and told us to bring it in and he would take care of it for us. I felt really lucky, however, to have such good people willing to help!
This week is not over quite yet, but I am hoping for the best!