7th, 8th & 9th

Not a lot to tell about the past few days. I think our blogs are going to get more and more boring for you to read....
Anyway we have been lazy with our blogs so we are going to roll 3 days into one blog!
so starting off with the 7th. nothing much happened today it wasn't that productive as Laura was job hunting all day. After the job from the call center was turned down because of the distance to travel to it, so it was back to the drawing board. Many jobs were applied for but nothing really looked appealing  We turned our attention to accommodation. Our hostel is one of the cheapest in Sydney however being jobless it is only costing us money. We found a country house in a national park whose owners wanted a house sitter to look after their cat. Basically it was 7 weeks free accommodation a little while later a woman rang us and said she would love to meet us so that's that sorted! it is however 2 hours from Sydney we called it a day there and headed for bed. 

Thursday 8th came around and it was a wet day! yes we woke up to rain but, that's not bad as it is winter here and its our first wet day. Being the morning it was we had a bit of a slow start and checked our emails. We saw we both had an email from the branch manager of Westpac telling us our bank cards had arrived!  We took a walk down and were instantly recognised! We finally got our new bank cards so won't get charged silly money for using our normal ones anymore! We had a walk around Sydney to find a car parking space. We thought parking in Brighton was hard! The WHOLE city had permit zones and you have to be a resident to get one, so this means the car still hasn't left the garage as we have nowhere to park it. Because of this we are planning to move hostels to find one that has a bit of parking. We had a walk along the marina as it started to drizzle and had a lovely look at the boats in there. There was a rather large variety from sailing boats to catamarans to powerboats to rather large vessels worth millions. (the type of boat you see in Monaco) feeling very very poor and a little damp we headed back to our hostel for the afternoon where we seem to be spending most of our time! Again we were looking for jobs etc. Dinner came around and Myles made a Chinese BBQ thing with sausages and rice. Again a little was saved for lunch the next day. After dinner we went to bed feeling sorry for ourselves that we hadn't been employed yet.  Talking of the next day it came. 
Friday the 9th, we looked out of the window to a lovely sunny morning so we spent the morning job hunting. Myles snapped and couldn't take looking at the laptop screen anymore so we went into the city. Walking in the phone rang offering Laura a job! So one of us is now employed! Basically a cleaning job however it is on the rather expensive boats we were dreaming about! So we are a little more relaxed now as we have $2000 a month coming in! We headed to the Sydney post office and collected our tax file numbers! They only took a week to come even though the tax office said it would take 2 weeks. (A step up from the English Tax Office!!) On the way back we came across a Nikon specialist and we got a replacement part for Myles' camera. so Laura is happy and now was Myles. Seeing all the super cars driving around in Sydney we felt poor again and went back to our hostel to have dinner and write this. This evening was also productive as we have found some accommodation for the next month! For $290 a week we have found an apartment in the marina where Laura is working. It has a double garage, double bed and a private room! NO MORE DORMS for a while!! We await to see if we have it tomorrow! Bye for now missing everyone at home xxx