Friday 2nd August

Today we were up fairly early as we had an appointment at the bank! We headed down and were ready for opening times. The branch manager recognised us straight away and took us into his office. Long story short we got a joint bank account set up so we can work in Australia. First big job done. Next thing was getting an Australian phone, we went to a Vodafone shop and chose the cheapest phone possible. We got a lovely little samsung. total spend $45 (including $10 credit)! Around £26! Second job done. Next thing was getting a tax file number, it's similar to a NI number but not if that makes sense? We took a long walk to the Australian tax office, took us about an hour and got that sorted. Third big job done. On the way back I had remembered I had promised to take Laura to Westfield shopping centre. So we had to have a walk through. I told her that Westfield is always badly laid out and we would get lost. We got lost. A good half an hour later we managed to get outside to find a road and started to navigate our way back to the hostel. Eventually we got back to somewhere we recognised and started to head back. We stopped to look at cars/camper vans/and 4x4s as some transport. We eventually decided on getting a four wheel drive car as a 4x4 or a camper is obscenely expensive! We looked at a 1998 Toyota land cruiser with quarter of a million miles and it was $12,000!! Same for a camper. We looked at a Subaru estate and seemed fairly nice, good on fuel unexpectedly large and over course four wheel drive. We didn't buy it but think that's going to be the sort of thing to buy. On the way back we got dinner, we only bought a sauce as we can get FREE rice in the hostel! Also a couple of cans of soup for Saturdays dinner. Total cost of dinner tonight $3.75 for 2 people! Great success. We got back and started looking at cars, anything that's any good we couldn't afford so we gave up and made dinner. As the rice was free we went a little overboard and cooked wayyy too much but that was ok as it was lunch for tomorrow! We sat down and started job hunting. Myles hasn't heard from Foti yet so starting to loose hope a little there... We finished dinner and all the noisy Liverpudlians came back so we ran away and hid in our rooms after investigating the roof garden, we had a reasonable nights sleep once people went to bed!!