Hello Everyone!

Well, it's finally here!!!! My new MINI! I've always wanted a new car and never got one till now! Sean and I discussed getting me a new car a couple of months ago since I was still driving a 1999 Camry that my parents had given me.

We looked at a few different kinds of cars and went to check out Mini Coopers. We test drove one and that was it! We both wanted it - BAD! This has got to be one of the MOST FUN cars to drive! Not to mention all the customizing you can do to them.

The dealer actually didn't have any Minis with the accessories that I wanted. SO, I ended up ordering my Mini. I HATE waiting for things so this was really killing me! However, I actually had an incredibly short wait. I really lucked out on the day I ordered my car and placed it just in time! I ordered on 9/20/07 and was picking up my baby on 10/24/07! Just barely over a month! Mini says that it generally takes anywhere between 6 to 8 weeks and I've talked to several people that had theirs take much longer up to 4 or 5 months!

We went and picked up the car today and of course I took a several photos and will definitely be taking several more in the future! I've got a Hypersport body kit on the car and I have a set of painted fenders coming in soon so I'll be replacing the black fenders as soon as the painted ones come in. We'll probably be putting the new wheels on the car tomorrow and we're still waiting on a bunch of stuff to come in - springs to lower the car, the rear sway bar, intake, a few other carbon fiber parts, I've got to get the windows tinted, thinking of putting a clear bra on the car to help protect the paint, etc. etc.

A funny story on the way home...the dealership is in Baton Rouge, Louisiana which is about an hour away from us. Sean and I drove there to pick up my Mini. I drove the Mini home and he drove his Suburban. I started out behind him but switched to being in front of him somewhere along the way home.

It's a two lane highway for most of the way back and at one point, I was in the left lane when I came up on a slow driving car. Well, the Mini wanted to pass it up so I put on my turn signal and switched lanes. I glanced in my rear view mirror and saw Sean blinking his lights at me with a concerned look on his face. I couldn't figure out why he was doing that until I suddenly realized I was about to pass up our exit!

I was having such a total BLAST driving the car that I didn't realize that we were almost home and I needed to exit! I quickly switched back in front of him and took the exit. Oops! LOL

Anyways, here are some delivery and post-delivery photos of my new Mini!

Thanks for reading my very long post LOL!

Celia