We bought a car!!

So, where was I? Well, let's begin by explaining the early hours of this morning, which, thanks to Bex, were pretty traumatic! 'What more vomit?' I hear you cry. No, much more exciting than that.

Erin came into my room at about 2am and said that she couldn't find Becky. Now bear in mind, we are staying in a tiny one bedroom apartment. Erin said that Becky was not in her bed or under her bed or in the toilet. I knew that she was not in with us. Maternal instinct and panic set in as I shouted her name at the top of my voice. Not sure what I thought this would achieve. Suddenly, we heard a tiny knocking sound and found a distraught Becky standing outside the apartment - she had no idea how she had got there. So now you can add 'sleepwalking' to the list of Bex ailments! As you can appreciate, this was pretty upsetting at the time. Nath and I were both paranoid that she might do it again so we built a complex obstacle course of dining room chairs in front of the door to keep her in!

7.00am arrived and we got up and breakfasted, showered and left to go to the RTA for a third time! (Oh well, I guess they do say third time lucky). This time, our paper work proved to be acceptable so we were able to set the wheels in motion. We then located the nearest Medicare centre to register for healthcare. 'Complicated' is an understatement. I have told the girls that they are not allowed to be ill until I have figured it all out... That could be some time!

Shopping for clothes for Erin was our next endeavour. This proved to be tricky; Nathan and Erin have very different ideas of what is and is not fashionable!

We then took a trip to a garage, intending to purchase a Kia Sportage. I looked longingly at a beautiful row of brand new Suzuki Swifts in a wonderful array of colours but Nathan was not having any of it! We needed a big car. However, the Sportage is a monster! It is a truck! It is a juggernaut. In short, I hated it. Fortunately it cost more than Nath wanted to pay so we looked around. Finally we settled on a Mazda CX5. It is a 2 litre petrol, 180 bhp. Or, more importantly, it is a lovely silver colour - titanium.

In a scene reminiscent of Monty Python's Life of Brian, Nath conducted some superb haggling. We even got a free koala with it! Not really! That was a joke!

Nath looked at the same car in auto trader in the UK and he reckons we paid about £3000 less than we would have paid for the same car in the UK. So that felt pretty good.

Finally for today, Nath has 'man flu' and apparently, Nathan has discovered that jet lag causes uncontrollable burger urges.

Talk again soon,

Lots of love.