Day four: Monday March

Today Caroline and I woke up and did some yoga before making breakfast with banana/mango smoothies (really yummy!). We then headed out back to straighten up her garden and before we knew it, were constructing a new one! Caroline's ultimate goal is to be as self-sufficient as possible, and that means making use of every spare inch of ground. We pulled up a huge patch of grass and revealed some nice black dirt that, after just a bit of work, looked ready to be planted in! Feeling HUGELY motivated by our progress, more plans for more gardens began to form. Caroline had some great ideas about how to dress up her new bed and we knew another trip to the nursery was imminent!


After lunch we headed to the Northland shopping mall so that I could exchange my money for Funky Plastic money:



And we walked around a bit to take in all the recent improvements and I mentioned to Caroline all the souvenirs that I'm hunting for, including Jessie's (Quinn's) Animalz toys. We stopped in a couple toy stores without any luck, and then Caroline suggested we try the Australian Geographic store. The toy selection was rather slim but without anything to loose, we asked the young guy at the counter if he'd mind looking at the picture on my phone to see if he knew what we were talking about. He did! He gave us an address for a specialty wooden-toy store a couple of suburbs over. Finding the DINOSAUR toys might prove to be a bit of a challenge, though...

That night, both of us were feeling a bit tired so we decided to splurge on some movies with Hot Guys. We went to Blockbuster and picked out Fighting and All Saints Day, only to be stonewalled at the checkout counter because we didn't have a membership to that particular store. In America, you only need to sign up to one Blockbuster and you can use that card at any of them, hence the whole PURPOSE of a chain store! So we were screwed; No card = No movies. To sign up, you had to present a photo ID and two forms of address (i.e.= bills) which seemed like entirely too much effort (who carries their ELECTRICITY bill with them?!) so out of annoyance, we left. But on the drive home, we realized that we really did want the movies, so Caroline searched for the proper bills and then double checked to see if she had her license--which was missing. So after a thorough house-trashing and realizing her mom had her license, she grabbed her passport and we headed back to Blockbuster. Walking in, I felt a little sheepish but while Caroline was filling out the fifteen pages of personal information, a mother of three came into the store with five "Very Late" overdue movies and video games, who "Talked to someone up here last night" and was told she could make payments (how late were they?!), which seemed to really piss off the girl in charge. The drama was a great distraction, but we left without knowing how it ended!

We made it home in time for My Kitchen Rules and Caroline cooked up some really tender steaks with fresh veggies and potatoes. We settled in for a night of relaxing and sexy men!!