russ and mindi drive stein ericksen's little black lexus convertible and nearly lose their minds

do you see this face? this is one happy man. yes, this is one happy man driving a sporty, expensive car that is not his. fo FREE. yup, instant love.


this is the 2008 lexus sc430 that the stein eriksen lodge loans out to certain guests. i'm not really sure why they offered it to us. all i know is that in all, ALL of our 17 years of hotel staying, we have never-ever-ever been offered something of this magnitude. and we couldn't have been more thrilled.  it was a watershed moment for russ and i and we immediately accepted, both completely giddy.

it was sleek and it was sexy and russ had the biggest grin on his face the whole time.  it was a convertible and we took the top down and cruised during this unbelievably beautiful, starry night in park city.  it was black, it was sexy, and it was fast:


russ must have said about 13 million times how much he loved the color of the interior--i mentioned that all we have to do is come up with roughly $70,000 and it could be ours.



we had a rest stop at the park city high school parking lot and tried to get a photo......

of a black car.

in the dark. 


and here i am demonstrating how incredibly bored and unimpressed i was with the whole situation. 


this was such a wonderfully fun and completely unexpected experience for russ and i.  we love to travel and we love it even more when we can make friends with nice properties like this one who does nice things for unimportant people like us.  i will never forget how it felt to drive fast up the mountain to our hotel with the wind in our hair on a beautiful july night. nobody appreciates these type of things more than me. except for him.  i love sharing these moments with him. 

14 comments:

Kristina P. said...

They must have known you were this huge blogging celebrity.

All we got were pity looks and maybe a scratch or two on my sweet Hyundai.

But your suite was about 3 times the size of ours. And we thought we were wealthy.

Trina said...

Sa-weeeet!

Amy said...

You lucky little Beeotch! Why didn't you want to take your acura? Oh... yeah it was wrecked and you were driving as you call it a miniture. I say you were driving a vangina...

omar said...

"we decided we'd rather keep them, and just have happy memories about that car....."

Only time will tell if you made the right choice.

Tiffany said...

Two things:

1. Wow.

2. I want to start traveling with you. Now.

rachel said...

Sweet...how fun :)

Tiffany said...

AWESOME!! Lucky dogs! =)

Anonymous said...

Lucky girl!

Anonymous said...

Wow! That looks vaguely familiar! I think I passed gas in that seat russ was sitting on! Bag getting the wrecked car back, go for the Lexus convertable!

Misty said...

Your husband totally looks like a stud driving that car. I don't think it's just a man fantasy though, I would LOVE to have it too. In the words of Napoleon, "LUCK-Y!"

kami @ nobiggie.net said...

Hot date, eh?! How fun for the Russ-Cat!

Ida said...

Very Nice! Check that one of the manlist

Omgirl said...

What I want in life is to some day stay at a hotel so nice that my valet knows more about my $70,000 car than I do. Impressive.

Mia said...

Wow, that is one of those things that never happens to someone you actually know, I feel special just saying that I know you...