Stickers, lights and foot pain

Friday was quite an exciting day for our little Micra. She was taken down to The Signshop to be stickered up. Dom had all our art work sorted so we handed it all over to be put on our car. A day later, we returned to find our car looking like this:

Beautiful. We can now drive around Sheffield giving some exposure to all our very kind sponsors who have stickers on our car.

Today we also realised, with only 4 days left till we leave, we actually have quite a lot to do on our extensive list. We started off by collecting our passports from the post office this morning - we now have all our visas except for the Turkmenistan invite. However, nobody yet has a Turkmenistan invite so hopefully The Visa Machine will come through for us and we will get those this week.

We then went off on a little shopping spree, buying a 12v car kettle, a toilet seat, some paint, rally lights, a dashboard anti slip mat and some water purifying tablets.

Upon our return, we set out to do our first bit of unassisted work on the car - fit the rally lights. This started off well as Rich proceeded to run over my foot when putting the car in the garage. What made things worse was that when I shouted out in pain he stopped the car on my foot, proceed to reverse back over it and then change his mind and drive forward over it again. Not ideal.

Nonetheless we spent the following 5 hours fitting our rally lights. We drilled quite a few extra holes in the car:

The finished product gives the car a subtle sporty finish, while still affording it added practicality:

Spurred on by our lighting success, we decided to do a bit of painting. We decided to first test out our artistic skills on less important areas of the car:

Although the spray can said to allow 24 hours to dry; patience is a virtue we do not have so after an hour we applied the first main coat. We await the results tomorrow.

We also bought train tickets home from Heathrow airport in what has been our most effective day of planning yet. Hopefully we'll be doing the same tomorrow so expect an update here.

xx