Cole and Ilia Massie

Sooooo…off we went to see the good folks at Honda of Hollywood today to meet up with the lift conversion people.

As Nick and I were busy signing paperwork, the manager came up to us and said, “Gee, I’m really sorry, but we just spoke to the lift conversion people and they said the silver van won’t work for you.”

Oh, well, I thought.  That’s that.

“So”, he says, we’ll have to give you the upgrade to the EX with the power sliding doors, the moon roof, the alloy wheels, all-station climate control and spoiler.” 

Oh, darn.

Wait, WHAT?????????  True!  Our FREE Honda Element which was upgraded to an Odyssey has now been upgraded to an Odyssey EX.   Have you ever???  We were dumbfounded!!  Silver was very cool, but now we’ll be getting beautiful “Ocean Mist” (a gorgeous blue.)  Unreal!

Juan, the very nice ramp conversion guy, drove it off the lot and told us it will be ready in 4-6 weeks.

Does Southern California Honda rule or what??

Take a look at this sweet ride!

http://picasaweb.google.com/MassieFamily97/HondaBlueVan

OMG!!!!!!!!!!

My dear friend Tim submitted a 200-word essay to Southern California Honda and….

WE WON!!!!!

He had submitted us for a Honda Element (the day before the contest ended, LOL!)   But after seeing our story, SoCal Honda decided that what we really needed was…(wait for it…)

A TOTALLY ADAPTED ODYSSEY MINI-VAN!!!!  HOLY FRIGGIN’ COW!!

Evidently, poor Tim and his wife Leilani have  known for TWO MONTHS that we’d won, but were sworn to secrecy…can you imagine having to hold that in from one of your closest friends?!?

So yesterday a nice bus came and picked us all up and carted us off to the fabulous Peterson Automotive Museum.  When we got there, there was no Element, so we figured we’d lost.  NOT!!

Here are the links to the video they showed at the ceremony :  www.socalhonda.com  (click “Free Honda” at the bottom of the page)

And the piece from our local news station:  http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=6605039

And some pictures:  http://picasaweb.google.com/MassieFamily97/HondaAwards2009

They are fitting it now for a lift (oh, say it with me:  SNAP!!) and will call us next week to tell us when we can go to the dealer to pick up…

OUR NEW CAR!!!!!!

SA-WEEEEET!