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THE DAMN CAR!!!
So I woke up to a phone call saying that we both got jobs on a cattle station at a petrol station/grocery store for an aboriginal community.... 300 k's out of Alice, sounded interesting and we are desperate so we took it.
We got ready to leave the backpackers.... I walked to the car put in my hand bag and felt water... 1 Litre leaked the whole way through my bag. Thank god my sat nav survived but my phone was dead. I sat it on the dash for a while hoping it would dry out but no luck. I had to get a new phone.
Then I called RACV because there have been water troubles with the car for a few days. We could drive it but needed to see a mechanic when we got to a town so I called them to help.. We waited for 2 hrs out the front of the backpackers for them to come. In the sun.. So HOT!! The man comes in his big truck, looks for 5 mins and reckons its a head gasket. We thought it may have been but wasn't nice to hear it. He finished his business so I asked shall we just follow him to the mechanic, he says your not driving that car anyway.. So Camilla and I took photos and videos of the car slowly going up onto the truck (we figured one day we will laugh about this and it will make a good story :). We jumped in the cabin with him and went off to the mechanic. Mr mechanic reckons he won't even be able to look at it until Wed and he will probably have it for a week. Oh and that it will cost between $800 and a grand to fix. We didn't know whether to cry laugh or smoke..... We took smoke!!
Now I think they say there is a bright side to everything right??? Well thank god for RACV because we have a wicked little silver Corrolla rental to drive for a week and a hundred dollar a night hotel to stay in which sounds like it should be fancy, but its not..... but its not a tent... And we feel so rich. Nice car, Camilla has a new camera, I have a new phone and we have real beds and we don't have to wear thongs in the shower :)
We also got another job in Alice which we would prefer than living with cows so we are going to be bottle sorters at a recycle place. We have to sort out the green, brown and clear bottles from each other and that's it.. A lot of bottles must be drunk in this town to need bottle girls hey hehe.
So we cancelled our cow job, I made up a big story and now start work on Wed.
We bought a goon bag tonight at the bottle O. Asked where the 4lt bags were, they say they don't sell 4lt bags in Alice and only one bag per person. So we plan to shower, open the cask and sit by the pool. Oh yeah we even get a pool.
So its Alice for 2 weeks. I'm a little scared of some of the locals. One came up to me last night at the phone asking for money.... I had none, I offered him my half smoked smoke, he didn't want it. He then stood behind Camilla while she was on the phone coughing all over her. We got our asses out of there quick smart!!
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