My Thanksgiving Day!

It's been an interesting week. We dug more into renting a house on the open market. On the one house that we were most interested in, the owner expected us to do maintenance on his 7 A/C units every 3 months. The cost for this is 350 BND! Ha! We rent our house in NL, and no way could we ask our tenants to do all the maintenance on the equipment in the house. I guess if you can find companies/somebody to agree to this, more power to you. The cats are still doing well, but are pretty bored! I take them to an outside area every day. They love being out on the patio, however, they want to eat the weeds. I don't let them eat the weeds because it will upset their tummies. Poppy sometimes gets very unhappy with me when I fuss at her for trying to eat the weeds. It's a tough kitty life! We finally received our temporary Identity Card (IC), which lets us apply for a Brunei driving license. Now we wait again for 10 working days to pass, and then we get to do the next step. We still cannot purchase the car that we have picked out. We have to have our local license before that can be processed. We have to give back our Shell loaner car this Wednesday. It looks like we will rent a car for at least two weeks. We went and checkin with the clinic at Panaga. They don't carry any of the medications that I am currently taking. Of course they want to give me an alternative drug, but I am not willing to change, since Cymbalta has been working for years. Therefore, they sent me to another pharmacy in Jerudong, which is about an hour away. I will begin physical therapy at Panaga next week. My adventure on Thursday (Happy Thanksgiving!) was to the town of Jerudong to the Jerudong Park Medical Center. It's an interesting place. I would not expect a medical center to be placed in the middle of a park. There is a very nice 18 hole golf course and polo club. Surprise! There is very little parking for the medical center, so I parked over in a lot for the convention center after I sweet talked the guard at the gate. From there I had to walk over to the medical center, maybe a 10 minute walk. I didn't mind, as the weather is very pleasant. I walk down the sidewalk where all the horse stable is located. All of the horses are stamped with a number on them. I was feeding them some sweet grass as I was walking along. There are probably close to 100 horses in these stables! Amazing! Once inside the medical center, I noticed that there is an orthopedist on my way to the pharmacy. I handed them my prescription and went back to the orthopedist clinic and made an appointment for Monday. The challenges of finding descent medical care while overseas! Here are some photos of my day there!