A True Islander

Well after many grueling days, I was finally able to bring home our very own Jeep Wrangler!!! Ryan and his dad (Alligator Allan) worked forever on something that happens within seconds in the states: getting money. You see everything on the island takes 10 times as long as it would back home.

We came down here with $8 grand in traveler's cheques only to find out that no one here wanted to cash them for us! Strange right? So we had to make an appt. with the bank and open up a savings account only to turn around and withdrawal the cash we put in. Then came the issue of getting a MoneyGram from the States. We sent over $9200. Thinking we were going to finally get the car on Saturday we left the bank very dissapointed and pissed off. MoneyGram only lets you send funds over in $2500 increments so because ours was one large sum they wouldn't give it to us! Allan had to then wake up at 6 am and go to the MoneyGram in Pinetop. However, no one there knew what to do or how to do it. To end this long annoying story, we didn't get the Jeep when Ryan was here.

But, the good news is that last night I received 4 separate MoneyGrams and payed for our awesome yellow Jeep! It's great...I feel very beachy in it and there isn't another one like it on the island. So pretty much the purpose of this post is to brag about my new Jeep and say a million thank you's to Allan and Ryan for doing everything they could to make this happen.