We have been traveling 67 days today. It was a very good day indeed it started off by Laura waking up looking at her iPod realising the alarm hadn't gone off and was up half an hour later than she was supposed to be up. Action stations! Myles was on breakfast and Laura made herself look presentable for work at 8:15. Breakfast scoffed down Laura ran out the door and down the road. (This was at 7:40 and Laura had to be at work for 8:15 and it was a half hour walk!)
After running most the way Laura arrived at 8 leaving time to cool off and look presentable again. Typically her boss Simon was late anyways. After some form filling a small intro around the boats and a job offer for myles she was sent on her way to start work Thursday at 7:30. A half hour up hill walk back with a Kitkat chunky in hand and she was home again. Also a little exhausted, but no time for that! She gave Myles the Kitkat as a thank you for helping her in the morning and we both set off in pursuit of getting our car at last!
A quick hello to our new housemates and we were off.
This time we didn't have any bus tickets to we decided to get them on the bus as we had seen people doing it yesterday. Turns out our $2.20 tickets were wrong and we should have been in zone 3-4 which was $3.60 oh well we only had one more bus journey.
We got off the bus back in Kingscross which we had gotten to know very well. We went to Coles to get some provisions and cheap meat. This was a feast of a shop which included peanut butter and MARMITE!!! As in our house there is a lack of a toaster Laura wanted marmite sandwiches instead so $6.40 later we had marmite yaay!
That done we stole some wifi from Wicked Campers to find where we would be doing our local shop and buying our new bed sheets! (Super exciting) K-mart was the shop of choice.
Details logged we were off again, car time! We paid for our insurance but couldn't get our ticket validated as it had been in there over the weekend. Doh. So we 'lost' our parking ticket and had to pay $50 to get out, much cheaper than the $340 we were meant to pay!
And we were off!! Finally our own transport. Myles drove and our first stop was Aldi as it was on our way home. More provisions bought such as gravy, crumpets and onions and we set off for home. Laura was very excited to have marmite on crumpets to the. Remember we weren't in the hostel and had no toaster or grill! So a very sulky Laura headed to K-Mart. After a short drive about Ringmer to Lewes distance we arrived in Eastgate shopping centre. It was huge! Had a Coles and Aldi! But we didn't need anymore food shopping, Myles spotted Lowes men's clothing shop and ran to find himself some new jeans and yet again his broke! Jeans acquired and a very happy Myles we went to a broken shop and got jump leads just incase $6 bargain! K-mart approached to grabbed a trolley and went wild! Myles headed for BBQ's and lawn mowers while I got some bed sheets duvet and pillows. Myles checked the list and we needed some bowls, plates, a cheese grater and a tea spoon. Laura ran screaming because she saw a toaster for $7.50 and promptly cuddled it and put it in the trolley. Crazily it was even cheaper than the bed sheets! Myles chose his plastic blue bowls and matching plates, but couldn't buy a single teaspoon so gave up and paid. We looked at our parking ticket which had 3 mins of free parking left until we had to pay! We ran to the car lobbed everything in the back and drove down to the exit. With a minute to spare we were out! Back to the house with our new purchases Laura made the new bed whilst Myles who had a headache hid in the huge wardrobe with sliding mirrored doors. After this we cooked dinner which was sausages with mash and onion gravy. This was very nice the news was on the tv tonight. Laura plugged in her new toaster which was very exciting and then proceeded to have a bath. This was even more exciting because last time we even had the option of a bath we were in Vegas. Laura ran a bath and had an hour soaking and generally relaxing. Lovely :)
After this bedtime and an episode of top gear from the memory stick.
Wifi has now been found at Laura's work so whenever she's working the blogs shall get posted :)
It sounds as if you have not lost your enthusiasm yet and you are coping very well. It's great to see Bondi Beach. I'm surprised though that it's not crowded. Perhaps this was the day of the 'Run' so everybody was otherwise occupied. Hope your digs prove satisfactory and also the car. Good luck to Laura in her job and hopefully to Myles too before long. A.T.B. xx G.
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