Bad, bad carless people!

Our kids giving "our new car" some love

This was officially our first week without our car, and we did not do a very good job of driving less. When I called Sarah to tell her that our car was gone, she laughed and said it was perfect because they had a retreat from Monday through Wednesday anyway, so we could have the car. We already had plans to use it on Sunday because that was our Valentines date night. Here is a log of our mileage for the week:

Sunday: Drop kids off @ J's parents, go to Burger Lounge, Barnes & Noble, back home. 31 miles

Monday: Get bagels, go to wholefoods, pick up kids @ j's parents. 19 miles.

Monday afternoon: gym, blockbuster. 3.5 miles

Tuesday: J. drove to work in Alpine and back. Carpooled with Jason. 46 miles.

Tuesday night: gym. 3 miles.

Wednesday: Bank, Costco. 9 miles

Thursday: no driving

Friday: picked up car from Sarah, came home. Went back to Carter's house because I forgot to drop off something. Went to Hillcrest to pick up an ipod from craigslist. 21.5 miles

Friday night: gym, Redlands. 127 miles, due to detour.

Saturday: Wedding, back to parents, bakers, back home. 149 miles.

Sunday: to church, back. 3.4 miles.

We totalled 412.4 miles for the week. Only 46 of this was legitimate carpooling miles. Horrible! The only thing I can say is that it was really rainy in the beginning of the week so I am grateful we had the car. Also, we were all sick all week, so it was good to be able to drive instead of making the kids be sick on a long walk in the rainy/cold weather. We really need to do better than this, though! I think that when there is a car parked in our driveway it is just TOO EASY to hop in it and drive to our destination rather than figure out an alternative. Yesterday we had the car all day, though, and walked to the grocery store and then Jeremy biked to drop off our videos at Blockbuster. We really just need to get into the mindset of being more "green" rather than doing what's convenient.

I'll post again at the end of the week with our mileage for this week! Hopefully it will be way less than 400 miles!

Sarah and her friend showing off one of our girls