Bye bye my little car...

So, I reached a decision a few weeks ago with the help of my financial conscience, Michele Winn. Since my subaru wouldn't sell easily on the economy for blue book and since I really still "owe" payments on it... it would behoove me to keep the Subaru, continue to use it for my friends' and my outdoor recreational convenience, and do the maintenence on it. So, I put the Golf (a very sad day) in the Stars and Stripes classifieds. I figured it would take a few days to get placed as the ads are on space available basis. One afternoon a few days later, I got TON of calls in the middle of the day (a day which I was working so i was SLEEPING during the day). I arranged a meeting with someone before I went to work, met them, they wanted it (which was kind of bittersweet), and today I met them to change over the registration and sell it! So, mathmatically, it was pretty much a 24 hour sale. However, when I went to get it inspected after work this morning, they thought it might have a transmission oil leak but it was so dirty underneath they couldn't tell. So, I went to try and pressure wash it myself... no change. I couldn't get under the car to clean it off. So i met the couple, told them what I had to do before I could get it to pass inscpection, and we went on a adventure to find Peter Diller's car wash by the Pizaa Hut. They put the car on a lift and steam cleaned it underneath. We went back to post, the inspectors drove it in the garage, looked under it for the 3rd time and cleared it! YAY! So I walked them through the process of registering a car in Europe. Then they drove me home and went on their merry way with the little car. I was very sad to see the little car go. It was so fun to have my German 5-speed. However, I felt good because now I am back to owning only 1 car and I didn't take a real financial hit by buying and then selling the Golf... and I learned how to drive manual. The couple I sold it to was from Omaha (Papillion specifically for the girl) and they were really sweet... it must have been meant to be. It's such a small community out here I'm sure I'll see them again.

Currently, I'm biding my time before driving to meet Emily and Christina and Christina's friend I don't know yet to got to Barcelona for the weekend!! I'm so EXCITED!! Our flight is at 6:30am so I have to meet them around 3am so we can drive to Hahn airport. The weather is supposed to sunny and high 80's! YAAY!