Hi all!  It’s been a crazy week since my last post…you know, with the election, and the moving of my company’s office, all of the food that I’ve been eating, and various other whatnots.  So, I apologize for being so lazy about posting.  Imagine that.  Lulu…lazy.

Anyhow, in the midst of all the craziness, I attended the BlogHer-sponsered GM Ride and Drive event at Atlantic Station in downtown Atlanta on Tuesday evening.  Now, for those of you who know me, you know that Lulu rarely goes beyond the borders of her office and her home during the week.  It takes something really extra special for me to break my own rules and GR’s heart to not go straight home after work.  And a BlogHer event happens to be one of those extra special somethings.  Okay, a BlogHer event and the opportunity to sit in one of these bad boys:

Fits Lulu perfectly, don’t ya think?  I’ll take that as a yes.

I was given the opportunity to test drive that fine-looking Saturn Sky, but honestly, I was just a bit too intimidated by the sexiness of it all.  It reminded me too much of the sexiness that is Maksim Chermkovskiy…

…who would also fit Lulu perfectly, don’t ya think?  But I digress.

Instead, I test drove this…

…the Saturn Vue Hybrid.  Not so overtly sexual, but definitely something I can handle.  Kind of like Colin Firth…

But, again…I digress.  We’re talking cars here, people.  I must focus.

The Saturn Vue is definitely a small SUV that I could get behind.  I don’t know anything much about hybrids, so it was interesting for me to find out that when the car is sitting still, say at a red light, the engine basically turns off!  Very cool.  Lulu is easily impressed.

I also took a gander inside the Saturn Outlook, which is roomy enough to fit 7, yet not so great on the gas mileage in my opinion (17mpg city):

And finally, the Saturn Aura, a nice, practical-looking sedan:

Sadly, my most favorite car of all was not available at the event—the Astra:

While on my recent trip to Germany, that’s what I was tearing down the Autobahn in.  However, in Germany, they call it a GM Opel Astra…but it’s a GM Saturn Astra here in the states!  Very, very awesome car and fun to drive.  I would seriously consider buying one.  Seriously, y’all.

But for now, I must settle for the payment-free, hubcap-missing, granny-mobile that gets me from point A to point B.  And sometimes to point C depending on the day of the week…