After a good night of sleep, we were awake by about 5:30am. David went to the nearby store and picked up breakfast- milk, bread, butter, and cereal called Wheet Bix (think Wheaties in a biscuit form that you break apart). We struggled in the morning to find an available rental car. One company had agreed to deliver a vehicle to us but after waiting past the delivery time they informed us it was not going to happen. All the rental companies were extremely busy with all the school holiday traffic. After getting really frustrated we started walking towards one rental company- Rent-A-Bomb. On the way we stopped and looked at some cars at a Holden dealership and the salesman offered us ride the rest of the way to Rent-A-Bomb. When we got there there were three old cars in the lot, the only three they had left. The cars were definitely a bomb. We ended up paying $35 a day for a ~1989 Toyota corolla (see photo). The interior was beat up, smelled like gasoline and it idled roughly at traffic lights so David had to put it into park to make sure it wouldn't die. Our goal was to purchase a car as soon as possible so we could get rid of this crappy car and also use it to check out rental properties. We went to a few car dealers and test drove one car which we hoped we would be able to buy once we were approved for financing. We did look at three rental properties, two were nothing of note and one was a newer property new the university. Overall the day was quite frustrating.
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