Run and Tell That: Hello, Summer (July Happenings)

Soooo a few months back, Monty, my some what loved black Mercury Mountaineer let me know that he was about to call it quits. I mean really he was right about to hit the bucket. The transmission threatened to fall out on a regular basis. He had a tendency to run into things, like parking lot poles, trailer hitches, the back of trucks, anything really. He had a cracked front bumper this piece of plastic below the back window fell off years ago, exposing an always dirty, old gluey looking strip of more plastic. And the saying, "beauty is on the inside" or "it's what's inside that counts" really don't apply here. Monty's interior was busted too. His AC broke RIGHT in time for the literal heat wave of the summer, the CD player hadn't worked since senior year of college and is probably still holding an awesome Backstreet Boy CD captive. The leather seats were all ripped up and only three windows rolled down. Basically, Monty was a hot mess. But after two whole months of searching, disappointment, frustration, number crunching, tears, sweaty miserable rides to and from work in Monty, I found Summer. She's a 2012 Ford Escape from Summerville Ford and I absolutely love her. Car payments are now a real thing for me. #adultproblems

Meet my new whip, Summer.

So what else happened this month? My dad turned 60! Crazy, right? To celebrate, my family went on a harbor cruise with Spirit Line Cruises. The weather was great that night and we got to see the cityscape of downtown Charleston and cruise under the Cooper River Bridge. During dinner, dolphins swam right by our window. We all had a really good time. Usually we just do a nice dinner but this was different and I think my dad appreciated that. There are also ghost tour cruises that go out of the same place. Maybe we'll try that soon.