Some folks have asked where the pictures of our new car are. And by some I mean me, I had promised them but haven’t delivered yet. The reason? Tomorrow the windows are being tinted and we’re having 22″ rims put on with low profile tires. Then the car will be as we negotiated, and on top of that? It’ll be clean 🙂 Apparently rain and sprinkles put spots on cars. Who knew?

I did also want to say how thoroughly impressed I am with my experience so far. I had to drive in the rain, break quickly, and drive carefully with sleeping passengers all in one day – and the CR-V handled fantastically. The rear seats recline as well as the front seats so that back seat passengers can catch a nap if needed (or sleep all night if we’re on a road trip from heck). I strongly recommend the CR-V so far and am quite impressed with everything in it with a few minor exceptions:

1. The ‘three on the tree’ stick gets in the way of the fade and balance controls. Normally people don’t mess with those every day but I do because Abby may want to listen to “Popular Disney Princess Songs” but I don’t.
2. The rear window latch requires that you close the window harder than you think you should or else the sensor flickers on and off over bumps on the dashboard. The window is surely closed, but the sensor still flickers. I’m going to ask them to look at this tomorrow.
3. It has a tape player as well as a CD player.

With a short list like this, one of them being a minor, minor issue, one of them probably being a small repair job and one of them is me picking on a non-issue (the tape player), we’re really, really happy with our Honda.