Sunday, May 10, 2009

Nathan's truck

Saturday, May 9 was definitely a red-letter day in the Murphy household! We started the day with crepes, had Patience's birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese's, and then drove to Monroe, Washington so Nathan could purchase this truck:







It's a cute little Chevy S-10 that he purchased for a very reasonable price from his supervisor in Seattle. It does have a manual transmission, so the first order of the day (or evening) was to teach Nathan how to make it go! Thanks, Uncle Dave, for Nathan's driving lesson! Better you than me! : )
He can indeed drive it around now...he drove it from the US/Canadian border to our house last night, and then drove Sean to cadets this morning at 0630, only stalling the engine twice! He still has to practice a lot today and tomorrow before he can safely drive it to Seattle tomorrow night.

1 comment:

Pat and Lee said...

Great truck, Nate! I looks like it's in great condition, too! And don't worry - in no time you'll be shifting through those gears, and stalling will be but a dim memory!

Find a hill to practice on, though.

Love you!