a day of doing

a busy day of non-photographical activities.

today we mostly:

• bought jane a mum-bus (a Toyota Ipsum – nope, i’ve no idea either.  it’s smaller than our hire car, ‘the beast’, which is a Toyota Enima)
• nearly bought me a car (but i bottled in as i was shopping alone and thought jane might hate my choice.  i think she did, but we’ll go back and have another look. how can anyone not love a car called ‘funcargo’)
• set up bank payments for our rent
• applied for tax IDs for me, esther and kezia (which involved huge amounts of photocopying in a tricky to find stationary shop with a strangely broken photocopier).  Couldn’t do Jane’s as I didn’t take her body with me
• spent over 90 minutes setting up home and car insurance (including retaining our UK no claims bonus which involved numerous international telephone calls as our old UK providers refused to speak to the new insurance people)
• agreed in principle to some tenants in our UK house who will hopefully move in this week(hoorah)
• ate pies for dinner and pizza for tea (double hoorah)
• joined the library (we can take out up to 35 books each.  Esther is already taking full advantage of her allowance)

whilst i was out doing many of the above activities, the girls were either playing at the local play park or swimming in the gated community’s outside pool.

time for bed.  we’re (hopefully) enrolling the girls at school tomorrow.

toodle pip