Well we did it. It still hasn't sunk in that anything has happened, but we put a deposit down to hold a 2000 Subaru Outback. It had a lot less km than the '98 model we'd looked at earlier and it's got a lot of the things we were looking for in a Outback that the other one didn't. We made them an offer that we didn't really think they'd take but it was all we could afford and they took it - so now we've bought ourselves a car! The only problem is we think it's the same color scheme as Troy and Heather's car - so hopefully we can still be friends when they get back from tree planting this summer.
We won't actually get it until next week sometime but I'm really looking forward to it. It won't really sink in until the car is in our garage I think. Time to set up my Subaru owners blog.