Mitsubishi Lancer

Here it is!!!! We would like to introduce the Aussie Mitsubishi Lancer that God put into our hands last week. She is a good little car and she already has a few stories to tell about her Alaskan drivers. Before I tell the story I need to insert some information about Australia roads and cars. They drive wrong! Well, actually I think america might be the rebel as far as this goes but here they do drive on the left side of the road and on the wrong side of the car. Fortunately the gas pedel and the brake pedel are still the same. I am still scared to drive though. It's going to be a slower process for me than for David I think. With that back to the story.
It was a lovely sunny day only two days after we bought Mistubishi and we went to bug some friends around noon. As we arrived we heard the noise of college kids planning a beach trip and descided it sounded like fun. Interesting thing about being around college students without cars is that you soon become the taxi cab and friendly transport system. Why not? So we got in the car and headed out for Bondi beach on the other side of Sydney. We didn't have a map but we were following a friend so we swallowed a little nervousness and headed out. David did great and we got to the beach after about 45min of weaving through the crazy road system of Sydney (there is no ryme or reason to their roads). The beach was beautiful but a little chilly considering that it is still winter here. Chilly here is around 70 to 75 degrees F. Then the fun began...We didn't get back into the car until around 4:30 and spent the next 40 min. trying to find some girls that had walked up the street to go shopping. That was fun! Then we tried to head home. The problem was that the girl leading out got lost and by the time we got back on track we were driving right through rush hour traffic in downtown Sydney. It was beautiful as far as the city goes but hold on to you seat as far as driving goes. People here are crazy! ! ! Once again David did great though and we made it though down town, over the Harbor Bridge, past the opera house, and on to our peaceful and very welcoming quite home. It was crazy though and I think God's grace that got us all the way home following a 19 year old college girl with her car full of stduents. We did actually get footage of the whole event though so perhaps we'll be able to show it to some of you reading some day and laugh with you.
Life is interesting isn't it. There is much else to tell but it's late here and time to sleep. Love you all!