The Impossible

I did the impossible yesterday - coordinated several different activities, all including government workers here, and managed to buy/register/insure a car in one day!

It was not without a few hick ups, like telling me that I cannot register the car without paying the 5% tax. I don't mind paying the tax but I had asked the dealership guy what are the steps I need to follow on Thursday to register the car and he had not mentioned paying tax at all. Therefore, I had to make an additional trip to the bank. Remember, I am taking the tram and bus all over the city to get everything done as I don't have a car, so things are taking a while. In addition, I don't know the city so I take a wrong detour from time to time.

Now that I have my fancy phone, I will not get lost ever again. The phone has built-in GPS, and I installed a really good GPS program (NavNGo iGo 8) which has been a life saver. As I had to make an additional trip to the bank, I was kind of in trouble as I had to be at another appointment in half an hour. So I used my trusty GPS program to tell me where the closest branch of my bank is and - voila. It told me where I could find a branch on my way to the next destination. Amazing!!! Saved me a lot of time.

Anyways, by 6pm, I had the car, the plates, registration papers and the registration sticker. After that we went driving around, found an AWESOME (super huge with everything in it) grocery store and loaded up with some goodies (Coke Zero for Carla). :-)

This morning at 5:30am I woke up thinking "I do not recall putting the registration sticker on the windshield, or anywhere else." Oops! So I went out to the car and could not find the sticker anywhere. I called the registration office this morning at 7am and they said that I can get a replacement at any registration office. Phew! When you do so many things in a day, it's a good thing that this was the only thing that went wrong. Easily fixable, so no problem at all.

This morning, I will go get a parking sticker so that I can park on the street beside our apartment. I also need to open a bank account as a Croatian resident, as that way I can get a bank card and all other banking privileges. Right now I have to personally go into a branch to take out money.

Then, around 10am we head out for the coast!!! We will be staying a few steps from the famous Zlatni Rat (Golden Horn) beach. We will be spending a week there and then spend the weekend in Banja Luka, Bosnia, visiting a few relatives. Talk to you after I come back from the trip!