Zoom Zoom

A few weeks ago Patrick's mom, Lois, drove up from NM to visit. She brought us chile, carne adovada and a new car. Yes...a new car.
It was a surprise for me, as she was originally going to bring up the "little truck" that I had been zipping around NM in for the last two years. She decided that the little truck had become too attached to it's life in NM and wouldn't do so well here in MI. She also thought that because it was an older truck (10 years), it might not handle the winters here in MI as well. So she asked Patrick if I still liked Toyota Rav4s, and when she found out I did, searched for the one she wanted. She found it in El Paso, TX. She flew down there and drove back to Santa Fe with it all in a day.
When she got here, she and Patrick came and got me and we went to her hotel to pick up "my truck" - I still thought that the little truck was what she drove out here in. We get to the hotel and I don't see the little truck, but figure it is probably parked around back. We all get out of Patrick's truck and Lois and Patrick are smiling - which makes me a little suspicious. Lois tells me (still smiling) that she isn't going to give me the little truck to drive - which makes me wonder why the hell she drove it all the way out here if she was flying back. She pulls out some keys and as she hands them to me says that instead she has brought me my new car. I look at her and can't really process what she is saying. So I ask her if this is a joke, because if it is, it isn't funny. She says no and points to a little tan Rav4 (that had been backed into the parking spot so that I wouldn't see the NM license plate). I look at Patrick, who is grinning from ear to ear, and I know that he has known about this all along. I go over to it and click the keyless entry and it unlocks. I couldn't believe it. Now, for the funny part. I have little to no voice - I had been squeaking all week. And so, now I am jumping up and down and I'm so excited and squeaking a whole lot. I sounded like a large rodent on speed. It was pretty funny.
The Rav4 is exactly what I would have picked for myself. I will try to post some pictures of it on here as soon as I can.
I call it "zoom zoom" because it isn't a truck or a car, and I am not one for saying "go get in the SUV". So Zoom Zoom it is.