My standard commute is to and from the school for the kids which is about a 7 min walk but when the heat is 40-50c as it is getting to now its to far to walk , and I do that about 5 times a day plus getting Colby to his school and going to the gym .So I stop and start the car about 15 times pre day yet only drive for about 20mins through out the entire day. So time for a vehicle better fitting to our needs.....Brought all the way from Texas in a shipping container , is my Golf cart!!
Check out my custom mickey /Maple leaf decal. I made it !There was 10 other carts that came at the same time and they are all identical right now so i had to do something so i didn't take the wrong one .
I was going to wait to post until i had it all finished and painted , but i'm to excited and had to share it with the world. Now I know you are all thinking what is so exciting about a slow little golf cart . Well this is not your average cart , it has a lift kit , and 12 inch rims , seats 4 with the back seats folding over to make a flat bed for moving things like groceries what ever you need , top speed is around 35km (As we call it Mach chicken speed) . We have plans to paint it add some lights underneath and make it our own.A lot of people on camp have their cart "pimped" out so i have to keep up
Now not everyone is able to drive carts on camp they take this very seriously this is a vehicle after all....We had to take a written exam to get our licence , which was no joke it had questions like .....You should talk on your cell phone while charging the battery true of false? , When turning a corner you a)use singnal lights b) wave franticly and hope someone sees you.....ohks so not that bad but it was a bit of a joke
Don't fret we both passed:) It also had to have a vigorous inspection from the garage to ensure it was safe and in working order , it went as so...Brandt: we need an inspection , Garage: yes sir , pay your fees and i'll sign the paper , Brandt: Do you need to look at anything ? , Garage: No sir here is your inspection approval
Done! So we are living the dream now , wind in our hair sun at our backs . I don't know what it is but you know that feeling when you are on holiday and you decide to be a big spender and you go for the convertible car rental . The driving is really no different , but there is just this feeling of being free. The same going driving the cart around camp , Its just fun.
Here are someother firsts , Time to cut the grass . Now we have a gardener who is pretty much useless he waters the grass , washes the driveway , washes the car. That's it! he does not cut the grass and being the type of grass it has only been cut once since we have been here 8 months. Now i know you are thinking we are "those"people on the street with the trashy looking yard ....it's not that bad . The grass grows a lot slower so it may be 4 inches long . And me being as cheap as I am we bought a 1950 style manual mower ....which doest work . and to get out grass cut we have to find the "mower" gardeners and get them to do it.....not going to happen or we buy a lawn mower to be used 3 time a year...also not in my cards , so I decided I was going to make this happen one weekend Brandt was at the rig.....i did the best i could with what we had but we resorted to this
yup this is what it looks like ....kayden cutting the grass with scissors. Then i took over , and finished the job. This is yet again another momement where at the time seemed totally normal you do what you have to to get the job done . Then looking at the picture and yup nope! can't say i did this one in canada.
but when in rome right ......Never thought i would do this one either. So you know back home they have fancy chocolate stores in the malls . Here they have Fancy Date stores. Now before moving here i thought the only thing you did with dates with put them on the inside of fig newton cookies and the only people that would eat or know what a date was were Old people. It's not True! they are yummy , and can be filled with anything and dipped in choclate and you could almost go as far to call them healthy because they were grown from the earth and basically a fruit right?? So this is our new guilty pleasure . In the past 2 months we have spent hundrends of dollars on purchasing and consuming these fancy yummy dates and I decided ..I can make those.
Here they are My Carmel pecan filled dates. i used my Grandma's carmel recipe altered slightly to fill the date. I'm sure when she taught me how to make this she never thought we would use it for this. I feel like i'm combining my Canada world with my Saudi world , And it taste Good.
Going with our theme on combing the old ways with the new , we have a pet! Her name is Lola ....the Lizzard and she lives in the garage under the water cooler , sometime under the fridge and every morning the kids go out and say good morning to lola , sometimes we see her sometimes we don't. It's truly funny and i just pray i never meet lola inside of the house!
Here is one of her "Sisters" she lives by the front door , under the dryer vent , she is a little bigger than my cell phone. What a gem, everytime you go to move something they scurry away....yuck!
And On that note! #Adventure Continues , And Embracing Life and all it's differences .
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