Rum & Dal

We are alone now. We have lost contact with everyone is the UK but we continue, onward and upward! What have we been doing in during the last couple of days?  Breaking our arms and legs thats what.  We’ve been trudging back and forth from the ‘Big W’ (sell just about everything, UK’s equivalent store would be Wilkinsons), Safeway and our apartment. The funniest thing I can tell you was getting the bed.  We have decided to buy an aerobed (inflateable) for now, we’ll get the real thing when we have our own place.  Anyway, we went to the shopping centre picked up the aerobed, which wasn’t very light… went downstairs to Big W and brought a duvet, bed sheets, duvet cover and pillows.  Got back to the apartment and thought we’d set up the bed… it blew up in less than a minute but to our dismay it looked a little small… we checked the size and it was a double… hmmm then it clicked. 

When Luke (chacha from Canada) came to visit us, he told us that the UK’s double is equivalent to Canada’s Queen size!  What a booboo. We had to haul all the stuff back to the two different shops and swap everything for Queen size… of course this also meant that everything was now heavier too. 

We finally got to the apartment to find the plumber waiting for us.  Knackered that we were we had to wait for him to go before we could relax.  He came to fix the hot water in the shower; he fixed this and left in about half an hour.  That night we had roti with chicken after a long time and it tasted good :) 

That’s all we’ve been doing really is buying stuff for the apartment. We are renting a fridge for only $8 a week. No point in buying all this stuff.  Just need to find a TV it is so boring without them.  There are so many things you need when you start from scratch… its a good job there are lots of students around here (mostly from India might I add), they all come over with nothing and need to buy all necessities too and so everything can be found and brought at a reasonable price.  I woke up this morning with aching arms and legs but its all worth it… man my feet hurt…