26/01/07 Aussie Day and Aussie Eve and houses

Aussie Day in Aussie is a bank holiday so everyone is off work. Its a day of massive celebration, and its a day of getting drunk. We have just been out with Nik and Joesphine today. We went to a pub in Watson Bay, it was really good, we ate outside and had an amazing view of the whole city and the bridge. Nik picked us up today in his convertible, but because of joesphine we didnt have the roof down, but i hinted later on in the day about it and we drove back with it down. This was great. We (I) have decided that we should buy a convertible :-).

Being driven around today was really good as we go to see the different beaches and really got to appreciate the place. Me and Simon both agree that today was a turning point for us on appreciating how beautiful Sydney is especially after our night out last night, which consisted of us going into the city to Hard Rock Cafe, which was fine. We then walked further up and met Gustavo after he finished work in the city. It was about 2 oclock when we finished in the bar drinking, and then we spent the next hour walking trying to find a taxi. It reminded me of Manchester, and the reason why was because it was hammering down with rain, and i mean rain. I was moaning in the taxi that it was like being in England.

Simon will claim that after me and Gustavo trying to get a taxi and being unsuccessful for an hour, he was clever enough to eventually find a taxi, thats not true. I ordered him to go and get a taxi across the road as i sat down, and he dawdled across the road and missed the taxi but fortunatly 2 taxis came along straight away afterwards.

Update on house situation: Not good
I start work tomorrow in the 'Crows Nest' Area. Its possible though after a couple of weeks i will be working from home however i suspect i will be there a couple of days a week at least. Sooooooo. We want to get somewhere to live for say a 6 month lease. The problem is that as well as the rent being ridiculously high everywhere, we want(ed) to live in North Sydney, the places are unfurnished, and there is such a huge demand that even when you put in an application form the landlord will then decide from all the applicants whether he wants you. Its jsut to much hassle. Having looked at some apartments in North Sydney we have now started to think that if its not Manly, then we dont want to live in North Sydney as its not very exciting. We also think that the friends we have made are really from either living in Manly or living in Waterloo and therefore the only friends we are making are people we live with, therefore perhaps if we got a 2 bedroomed apartment we could rent the 2nd room out to someone. However we just dont know what to do. We also spoke to Joesphine and she said Scott and Ingrid dont want 2 people in the appartment with them so thats that option out. (Joeshone is moving out and moving in with Nik). However Niks place does seem to have a room up for rent, therefore that could be a possibility. We have until 16th Feb to decide what to do before Daniel comes home and wants his room back.