Since it looks like we are getting our place tomorrow we decided to revisit the car rentals. There’s a rental agency that (as bad as it sounds) is called Rent-A-Bomb. Yes, they have older cars but they are fully registered, insured, and cheap. We started asking about extended rental periods and found that they even sell their cars. Now we are looking for a car to keep us on the road for a year, and I really doubt some of these will last longer than that, BUT for $1700 AUD we get a small Toyoda Corrola (don’t know the year) that is an automatic and has 6 months of registration. I asked him what happens if the car craps out on us and he said that if we brought it in, they would do the labor for free and only charge us parts. We’re thinking this just might work out.
This weekend we are pretty much killing time. We REALLY want to move in, unpack our stuff and have a bathroom/kitchen to call our own, but we have to at least wait until next Monday (perhaps even Tuesday). So, we get to kill time this weekend. This morning we went shopping (to at least price) some of the requirements (bed sheets, bathroom stuff, etc) and we found a working microwave at Salvation Army for $30 AUD (thats only about $21 USD) Sweet! It wasn’t the newest but it works.
We’re planning on running out to the beach and playing in the water today. (sunscreen is our friend) We’re going to play it safe and only fry ourselves for 2h’ish. (wish us luck and lots of “not burning”)