02/10/2020
An early morning trip to Bob’s to sign the papers and Mustang is officially ours! Last night Bob called to say he was going to Brisbane to look at boats and needed to pay a deposit. He asked J if he could pay the balance one month in advance. He offered a thousand dollars off. J accepted immediately.
This afternoon, we went to register our new boat, all of J’s IDs are from Victoria, and he doesn’t have his full name on his driver’s license (including the middle name), so it’s very troublesome to register a boat in Queensland, you need a passport, birth certificate and other supporting documents, it’s really ridiculous, the bureaucracy here is comparable to some large developing countries, so the registration is unsuccessful, may have to register Mustang as a Victoria boat.
We invited Bob over for dinner tonight, and I made Thai pineapple boat with prawn fried rice, which was very well received. He even sent pictures to his wife (she is Thai) and was complimented again by her.
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