Almost one month later...

Giant Koala in middle of nowhere Victoria... enroute to Adelaide

Sorry for my recent absence from blogging. A lot has happened since I posted last but I'm just going to sum up the last week or two.

We ended up driving from Merimbula, NSW (Far South New South Wales) all the way to Adelaide over the course of three days. It wasn't bad and we encountered few problems. One of our problems was not knowing the way through Melbourne and having to pay $12.55 in tolls. Boooooo. Our car was surprisingly, no, shockingly good on highway gas milage... like 700km+ for her full, just under 60L tank.

The Blue Beast Herself

Anyways, we did that part of the 'road trip' that fast because we were looking for work in Merimbula and Andy had this long list of electical companies to call and decided to practice by first calling some companies in Adelaide that we'd looked up online. Well on his second practice call he was offered an interview on Monday morning (this was Thursday morning) and the call had given him such a positive vibe that we decided to go for it.

Long story short he got the job no problem, even after a few hectic and last minute I-need-some-references calls to England. He started yesterday and said it is eaaaaaaaaaaaaasy. But hot because they're doing new houses that already have the windows installed and it's about 40C here everyday. In the one week we had to kill we looked for a place to live (we were staying at a caravan park, north of the city, in a tent). It was a royal pain in the ass but we finally found a share house with a nice Aussie couple in a good location and across the street from Ikea :)

So we have a home. Andy has a job. I'm looking for a job. And it's summer. Now if only our car would cooperate....

Previous Home Sweet Home

On Sunday evening, after we'd finally moved into this house, we realized we'd left grocery shopping too late. So we drove around trying to find an open supermarket (the vast majority of them close at 5pm on Sundays). We ended up getting pizza. When we went to drive away from the pizza place the car wouldn't start- flat battery! We got a jump and went for a drive, hoping that's charge her up a bit. Nope. Stopped for gas, flat again. Gas station didn't have jumper cables, attendent told us to walk a few blocks to a different to buy them. $40 later we got her started. By this point we were hot and tired and both sort of knew it wasn't going to start in the morning but felt too stressed/defeated/what have you to do anything about it (opening a phonebook would've been a good move in hindsight... ie multiple 24 hour car battery delivery service). In the morning we got up early enough to have it not start, call a cab, and Andy still be on time for his first day. I waited around for our housemates to set off for work, got a jump, and took the blue beast to the garage... I assisted the mechanic in holding the hood open (it doesn't stay open itself) while he tested the battery... the tester read "REPLACE -100%" Sweet. Since then the car has been a good girl and can't wait to go.

So we thinks we're gonna take the next weeks to settle in, I'm gonna look for and get a job, and just enjoy everything this city has to offer.