Driving on the wrong side of the road

All of us slept in until after 10am this morning, a good day to unpack and tidy up.  Brendan brought over our new car in the afternoon, a black Ford Explorer, so we had to go for a spin to get used to driving on the ‘wrong’ side of the road.  The speed limit in Lab City is 40 km/h until you are outside of the town so it is a good place to drive because no one is in a hurry.  It surprising how much you do out of habit when it comes to driving, even getting driven around we keep going to get in the left hand side as a passenger so it was very strange getting in the left hand side to drive, the next thing you do is reach for your seat belt over your right shoulder and there is nothing there.  Next the gear stick; Steve and I keep grabbing the door handle or window controls to change gears.  Once we are actually out of the driveway it is a bit daunting when the oncoming traffic appears to be on the wrong side of the road, you have to keep reminding yourself when you turn onto a new road that the steering wheel is meant to be in the centre of the road.  It doesn’t take too long to get used to it but I have to make a conscious effort to look in the opposite direction for oncoming traffic when turning.

We drove to Walmart to grab a few essential items and we were like kids in a candy store.  We have been told that Walmart is a ‘cheaper’ style store but it has different brands to Kmart/Big W and in some cases different sorts of items, for example Cooper was so happy looking at the toys because he hadn’t seen a lot of them before.  Steve and I had obviously forgotten our pledges to not accumulate so much stuff (after being annoyed about the big job of packing up our place in Karratha) already we had a trolley full of new stuff!  It included my birthday present a Kitchenaid Artisan mixer for only $188, we couldn’t help ourselves.