guesswhatigotanewcar. 1of4

as much as i loveeeeee my nissan altima, jon has been encouraging me to entertain the thought of replacing it with something a bit newer and more reliable. over thanksgiving, jon was perusing his land cruiser forum and came upon a 2010 toyota camry xle with 28,000 miles located in Virginia. he talked to the owner for a few weeks before we decided that we wanted to fly to va and get that car! (shalon from SNL) while we were in utah, we went to the bank and got everything finalized so that we could make the big purchase. we got back from UT on thursday and left sunday morning at 6am. we flew from san antonio to atlanta then from there to dayton ohio and finally from dayton to baltimore, md. 

 jon thought these m&n's were the funniest.

 the owner picked us up from the airport and drove us to his apartment in virginia. we passed the DC temple on the way! he was a really nice guy with an even nicer car. he had taken very good care of it, it is honestly like new. this is us excited about our new purchase and heading into DC!
(sun roof!)

 DC is my favorite place in america and also where we spent our 'honeymoon' when jon got back from deployment. our capital has a special place in our heart so we were sad to only be passing through. jon dropped me off at the lincoln memorial and drove around (we couldn't find parking and didn't have license plates). it was nice to be there for a few minutes, even in the dreary weather.

we got to go see these two cuties!! they are living the life in alexandria while melanie goes to GW and stephanie is a nanny. they made us an awesome dinner complete with dessert. it was so fun seeing them and catching up, i wish we could have stayed longer. stephanie, being the sweetie that she is, prepared us a road trip bag of goodies. she knew that we didn't bring anything for our road trip since we flew. it was complete with veggies, crackers, fruit, water and sweets. she is so thoughtful and motherly (always).

almost immediately after we left them, we realized that we forgot to get a picture! they sent us the one of the two of them and we sent this. good enough, haha!

we left their place and headed for Quantico, VA to see jon's gunny. it was nice to be on a marine corps base again, it felt like home and quantico is so cute and homey. it was fun seeing him and his family and hearing about what their plans are. their place was not our last stop of the night although it was already 9pm. we left quantico and headed for raleigh, NC!!!!