Sunday, March 1, 2009

Our new van!




Surprise, surprise...we joined the ranks of Burnett family Sienna owners! We purchased this just over two weeks ago and are loving it. It's a 2001 XLE, so it's got leather interior. It has a great speaker system in it with a 6-disc changer and tape player, so we're enjoying listening to music and radio again. It only has 74,000 miles on it! (Of course, when I told Grandpa Foley that, he and Grandma thought that was way too many.) Bekah loves having control over her power door and the rear heat, although she was very sad to say goodbye to her window that rolled down in the Odyssey (a feature we liked in the 5-door van). I was sad to say goodbye to the rear bench that folded into the floor, but found that we like having a third bench that slides back and forth. Our Odyssey was just falling apart...literally. We truly got our monies worth out of that van. We thought we'd sell it before it hit 200,000 miles so we listed the Odyssey on Craig's List the day after we bought the Sienna and had 4 people seriously interested in it within 15 minutes of posting! We sold it that night. Amazing! We feel blessed. We now can drive safely in the winter weather.

Pictures: You'll see our garage and the back of the house in the background on one picture, and West Elementary in the other.

1 comment:

Anne Burnett said...

Hooray for Siennas! I hope you will be as pleased with your van as we have been with ours. All of the details are so similar - ours (which was purchased a year ago) is a 2000 XLE (leather and all that good stuff)and had just under 75,000 miles when we got it. :) I'm sure you're glad to have found something you love and to be done with that whole buying process.