An Offer They Could Refuse

We began the day with a sense of optimism and anticipation. Today we would hopefully get a place to live! We received an email from the agent of the tiny, but lovely, studio that we would hear back during the day after his meeting with the owners. With our fingers crossed, we took the morning off flat-hunting.

Sick of eating in restaurants and cafes, we headed down to the Chinese supermarket to get ourselves some salad ingredients. We quickly prepared a tomato, cucumber, ginger, onion, spinach, lime and chilli salad, and G added some craved-for vegetarian sausage (which C had deemed as "revolting" and the Italian guy had described as German sausage left out for a month) to her own plate.

After brunch, G was eager to try a more challenging ballet class, and C was excited to start swimming again, so thus we began to fulfill our first Auckland resolution to GET FIT! G greatly enjoyed her Russian-style class, and met C outside afterwards, who was half dead after an intense swim. Almost back at the hostel, C got hungry, so we stopped at "Revel" to fill her up. She chose a rather delicious mushroom and walnut burger, and we got told that we have awesome accents. We also got handed a Cookie Monster toy for no apparent reason. This can only be a good thing.

Back in our room, we received an email telling us that the owner of the flat had decided to go with another applicant. Disappointed, we resolved to start looking again, but this time with an accomplice! Nat, one of our new friends that we met on Sunday, had expressed an interest in flat-sharing with us, and so we expanded our search to 2-bedroomed apartments.

In the meantime, we received another message from a vegan looking to flat-share, widening the choice of available properties. G booked us in at another hostel down the road, as we have to leave this one tomorrow. We spent the rest of the evening trying to arrange viewings, and feeling pretty bummed out.

The bears are a bit bummed too, but Fandango, ever the optimist, is sure that we will find somewhere amazing soon. Fred and Ginger are hounding us for a room of their own, but we have stressed that this is quite unfeasible, whilst Jeremy's location is currently unknown but likely to be one of the seedier clubs on K-Road.