2 car house hold!

We finally broke down and decided to purchase another car. Since leaving Florida a year and a half ago, we managed to handle our transportation matters by just having one car. So after a much great deal of thought, we decided to get Chris's dream car for his birthday- A beautiful Subaru Forester. Or is it my dream car? Will I still be taking the bus to work? Absolutely without a doubt! With the price of fuel jumping up to over $3 a gallon which is insane, public transportation is still the way to go. So you ask why did we bother getting a second car and going through the trouble of making another car payment and dealing with another monthly insurance payment? So we can have a car for the mountains, for winter ski/snowboard trips perhaps, cross country driving, camping in the summer with friends, and best of all....taking Bear and Lucky to the park on the weekends.