Deals & Family Fun

After school visiting, blog writing and budgeting, I headed to the bank then back to the shop.  Seeing that they weren't done with my car yet, I took a short walk through town.

When I had taken my car to the Shop in Princeville, they mechanic said that they couldn't work on the headlights because 1) to replace the headlight would cost $144 + labor, 2) replacing the headlight may not fix my problem, and 3) they didn't know much on foreign cars and said to take it to an expert and/or a dealer, both which would likely cost a lot more.   My dad then suggested that I take it to Dan in Tremont and have him take a look at it.  Good think I did too.  Come to find out the first 15 years of mechanics for him were Only imports (foreign cars).  So he was able to get into it and do the work.  He said that it was difficult since VW makes it hard to get to the light, he had to take off the bumper and then pull out that whole end of the car, then he was able to get to the light.  With all that work, he replaced both headlights and one high beam, plus readjusted the angle of the lights for only $106.66.  That's a lot better than Princeville's $140/light + labor.   God is Good!!!

I pulled out of the shop a little after 11:15am and I rushed back to Princeville.  I made it to Princeville by noon and met Grandma Siebenthal, Rosie Siebenthal and all her kids at Sprinkles for lunch.  Sprinkles is Princeville's newer ice-cream shop that also has good sandwiches and salads.  I've probably only seen the kids once or so in the past year, and I thought it would be a bit awkward to eat with them, but as soon as they found out that I had seen the new Star Wars movie, all that was gone. Haha, it was great, they are so into Star Wars and know everything about it.  Caleb was telling me all about these new books on lightsabers, and all the Star Wars stuff.  At least 2 of them were waring a Star Wars shirt, and Caleb (who was waring a Snoopy Shirt) was telling me all about his other Star Wars shirts.   This is clearly something they are passionate about.   They're all over the 7th movie, and had many questions about what my favorite scene's, characters, and actions were.   Oh, it was so much fun!   We talked nearly the whole time on Star Wars, haha.   Oh it was great!   It was so nice to be able to see them before heading back to Canada, it's something I'd been hoping to do, and praise God I was able to do it.  Thank you grandma for inviting me, and for buying us lunch!!!!  I loved it!!!!  And I hope to be able to do it again soon.  I love spending time with family!!!