The Lord provided us a 15 passenger van! Dale saw it on Autotrader.com. It had what we were looking for, within our parameters of cost and mileage. And... it isn't white! Woohoo! All our vans have been white, and I was so ready for some other color whether it be blue, black, paisley or polka dotted.. whatever, as long as it wasn't white. It is burgundy. Very classy looking if I do say so myself. It has somesortoranother engine in it, V-something, and thinamagigie on the back for towing a trailer if we ever need to, arm rests, cassette player, auto this, auto that, AC (that was NON NEGOTIABLE), cruise control, power windows and stuff. It was in the same town where one of Dale's brothers live, so he went and checked it out for us to see if the 4 1/2 hour one way trip would be worth it. It "just happened" to be the exact same year, make and model that he drives for his church, so he knew what it was supposed to sound like, feel like, drive like. He called us and said it seemed very clean, mechanically sound, in over all good condition.
Last Friday Dale and the deacon from our church drove down to kick the tires, check under the hood, and other like guy type stuff. He was satisfied with what he saw, so he drove the van home and the deacon drove our old van back.
It is so good to see it out there, all paid for, and ready to go. Of course, we don't have plans on going anywhere. Not just yet. :)
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