I never saw this one coming.  I woke up on Father’s Day to heart shaped pancakes with sliced bananas and strawberries, syrup, and a glass of milk – all in bed.  Does it get much better than that?  Then we went to church, lunch, hung out with some friends, miniature golf, dinner, and then drove around looking at cars.As good as the day was, I still could not find any car that would convince me to give up my 2003 Passat.  I like the new Passat and still love the Mini Cooper, but I did drop the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord off of my short list.  Just a little too bland for me.  I was really surprised by how much the Camry went for once you added leather.  I did like a used BMW we saw for 26k, but it was a 2003 and I paid 26k for my 2003 Passat when it was new, so paying the same money 4+ years later for a used car of the same age made no sense to me.I was surprised how much I liked the Ford Fusion.  Really surprised.  I’ll need to look in to this one a little more as I was not impressed by many of the American cars at all.  Funny what a nice set of wheels and tires will do to a car.We still need to see if we fit in the Mini Cooper as a family.  It will come down to this – if I have to have the driver’s seat all the way back, that will only leave about 3 inches of leg room for the rear passenger, so that will put the Mini Cooper desire to rest.  I would really like to bring it in as a 3rd car, but I don’t have a 3rd garage or room in my driveway for a 3rd vehicle.I’m basically no further along than I was when I started. 

I took the day off and we headed off to Phipps Conservatory to check out the flowers. I was looking for a reason to take a bunch of pictures, and these came out way better than I expected since all I did was a one-handed point and shoot with my little 4 Meg Canon.

You can check out the pictures here.