freewheelin'

omg i own a car. WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT. not just any car, a super attractive, white 1994 ford falcon station wagon! you can only lock the car through the trunk and it has some crazy ass window sticker coverings and is covered in red dust from up north, but it is all mine. 

today was the craziest day of my life. first we went to this unreal sushi place and had MASSIVE rolls of sushi, like 4 of them and never wanted to eat again after haha

then we went to go see 3 cars, and we ended up buying two of them LOL! the first one was a dump, like basically falling apart there were a ton of things that sort of didn't work so we were a bit iffy about it, and she wanted way too much for it. so we went to check out the next one which we weren't sure about but it turned out to be really nice! the guy was so chill and bry decided to get that one. on the way, we were waiting for the bus and there was this orange tree with some branches hanging over this high stone wall which bry climbed and pulled down some oranges which we snacked on! omg they were SO good. 

then we met this lady fiona to check out her car she was selling for 1600, a ford falcon. i was really scared to drive so i drove around the parking lot and bry took it out on the road. it makes some weird noise and jerks a bit when you go from a stop light up to 40 or 60, and sometimes when the wheel is all the way to the right or left it squeals a bit, but other than that its fine i think? i really had no idea so im like yeah sure, and bryanna was super good at negotiating so she ended up saying she would sell it for 1100 so i was like whoo let's do it! we signed the papers and i paid her and that was it! the car also has these plastic vinyl stickers over the windows for privacy when you sleep in the back, but wtf you can't see out the windows! so we tried scraping them off but i think it's going to be really hard to get it off haha

then we had to go back to get bry's car (also a station wagon) but i was too nervy to drive by myself back to freo so she drove us back and we were going to park the car and then take the train back to stirling to get her car. we parked just beside the hostel to go in an inquire about where to park. when we came back, a gate was closed and the car was stuck behind! it turns out it was the fire station, so we had to go ring the bell and ask them to move it! hmm though... aussie firefighters? OKAY! lol anyway the guy seemed pretty cool about it so ok phewf. then we went to park the car for good. turn it off, hop out, lock it. the locks don't work. they just go down and then back up. so the lady who sold it to me said that it sometimes does that if there is a seatbelt caught or something. i'm not kidding you, we played around with the locks for 20 minutes and finally, bryanna discovered that it worked when you locked it from the trunk! soooo i basically have to lock and unlock it from the back of the car everytime, which is a pain but not a huge deal! haha so silly. i also had to gas up pretty much the whole tank and it cost 90 dollars. wwwwhaaaaat. gas is about 1.45 per litre here, it's nutty!

this is me and fiona in the woolworths parking lot where i bought the car lol they had just put a new engine in it in april and brand new tyres, so i'm really hoping all the weird sounds aren't something crazy. it also doesn't have ac, but i like driving with the windows down anyways! i'm going to take it to a mechanic tomorrow for an oil change and check up, so fingers crossed everything is ok! it also has like 415,000km on it which now that i think about it is a friggin lot, but for 1100, if i need to put some work into it i dont mind. 

this is basically what mine looks like too except the back windows are whited out and it has roof racks for boards which is siiiick. so, sort of a heap, but it has room for camping in the back and it moves, so its all good! i was basically super overwhelmed today and i really don't know how im awake right now and we have to move the cars by 7am tm so we don't get tickets ahh! 

we went to pick up brys car, the guy was so chill and we drove home, went through a roundabout the wrong way, and got pulled over by the cops because it "looked like she didn't know where she was going" LOL omg i was so scared haha anyways we finally made it back to the hostel, made some food and are now looking for surf shops to go check out boards tomorrow! obvs my priority is making sure the car is a'okay but if i can get a board for pretty cheap, i definitely will!

so that's it! we both have wheels and we are bound for margs this weekend! very happy, just a lot to take in in one day and i was so stressed. def will feel better when a mechanic takes a look at it for sure. 

im sure half this blog doesn't even make sense cause i'm so tired buuuuuuuuuuuut you get the main points lol 

miss everyone lots! talk soon xoxox soph