Mid-life Piano Crisis

Don't they say that when you have a mid-life crisis you exchange what you have for something younger, sleeker, hotter. Well, I must of just had my mid-life piano crisis.
For my graduation my parents got me an old piano. I have loved having it and playing on it. However, it is over 100 years old and with teaching piano it just wasn't cutting it. When I had the last tuning done, the technician said that pianos usually last 80 years and then need to be basically rebuilt. Mine was over 20 years past that and still going, but not for much longer. And now with the extra abuse from my children and my piano students, Andy and I realized that we needed to figure out how to get a piano. So onto craigslist I went. Most of the pianos on there are similar to mine, old. But then I found THE ONE.
So off Andy, our friend Kevin, and I went to look at and pick up this piano. It is MUCH smaller than our beast, it even fit in our mini-van. However, it was on the other side of town, and on the second story of the apartment building. It was an adventure getting there (don't let Kevin give directions) and an adventure getting it down the stairs (oh the hits we would have gotten on youtube). But we all survived, and amazingly so did the piano!
So I have upgrade to a younger, smaller model, and I'm LOVING it!!!

BEFORE

The Beast

AFTER

The Beauty

ps Do you know anyone that wants a beast for a piano??