Day 94 - Day 101

5 - 12 May 2013

You wake up pretty early around here, I think it's because of the bloody heat! You can't possibly sleep when it's 30 degrees inside the van by 9am!

This week we have had time to look around Broome and see what is around...markets on Sundays ...any place that has markets is fine by me! Would have only been about 15 stalls with food, clothes, tours and pearl jewellery. Was a nice walk around but not too much we were interested in.

The town centre of Broome is pretty small just your regular shops, bakery, take aways, cafes and Coles. A little up the road is a bigger shopping centre with woolworths and target etc and then there is an industrial area with bunnings, arb, clark rubber etc so pretty much have all bases covered in the shop department.

They also had an expo on the weekend which was sort of like a camping boating fishing employment and business expo all rolled into one. Costa the crazy Gardner was there guest speaking and Scott Hillier talking about barramundi fishing. It was quite interesting but it was so hot, we definitely have not become climatised to this heat yet! Wow the sun packs a punch!

Checked out the beach and camel rides which we will do one of these days. We are lucky we have a pool where we are staying so we have been in it everyday for a swim to cool off from the heat!

Joel started his new job on Tuesday and lasted till Thursday before he politely told them it wasn't the job for him. Was quite a few things he didn't like, they didn't wear safety things like a mask when welding, paint was stored under welding tables, it was the same work he was doing on the coast, and no one knew what they were doing! There was a few other jobs he could apply for so we went to work on these and in the meantime a 2 week job came up in Derby. Called them on Thursday and they asked if he could start now! So Thursday we spent organising everything and Joel left for Derby on Friday morning. Derby is about 3 hours from Broome, which means we now have 14 days apart while I stay in Broome and Joel goes to work his bum off in Derby. This is a great opportunity for him, it is a mining services company that builds equipment and repairs equipment for mining companies. This is what he has wanted to try for a long time so it couldn't be missed....the money is really good too!

After a couple of days he is going ok, he is learning a lot, there is a couple of good guys working there (a bit rough but not too bad) and its not hard work so 2 weeks will fly by anyway and who knows where it may lead. If nothing else it will look great on his résumé.

I haven't had much luck with work, have applied for some but haven't been actively looking because we still haven't decided if we are staying here for a long period or not. A lot of hospitality work around which I have not done any of and they all want experience. I was talking to my sister the other day and she told me I should just add on my résumé that our family owned a takeaway shop and I worked in there. They don't need to know that I was 7 when we owned that shop right?! And the only thing I remember doing in that shop is stealing freckles from the lolly section and I had to hide them in my cheeks so mum and dad didn't know I was eating them! Haha I told mum this story and she said oh great no wonder the shop didn't work out, you were eating all the profits! Haha needless to say I have decided to leave this off my résumé!

I am filling my days with tv, exercise, swims in the pool, sewing some dresses, Internet and keeping this van spotless. I know I sound busy but really all this takes about an hour so I still have lots of spare time. I actually think I might be losing it because I just watched the same infomercial for about 30 mins and I now really think Soupmate Pro would be a necessary addition to my kitchen! Hahahahaha

We also did a few modifications to our camp set up to allow us more space to sit outside of the van and to give us more room to store things from the car etc while we are here. We got some shade cloth to put around the awning that comes off the back of the van. And we bought a gazebo with some walls which is great as we can sit outside for dinner etc without sitting on top of each other, and in this heat sometimes the van is just too hot to sit in!

My topics of conversation have definitely decreased so I am cutting the blogs back to weekly or possibly even monthly while we are back into a normal routine. Hoping to still explore on the weekends so if there's something to write about, I will, otherwise please feel free to ask us anything or send us emails to catch up while we aren't blogging.

Carly & Joel

 

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