Hercules - the Legend

Not Hercules the greek god but Hercules the Mazda 2, our beautiful car.

Hercules has saved our life more than once, most outstandingly during the cyclone that hit The Gap in November last year where we were trapped in church without power and without any road access. Hercules took a huge hit for the team - a massive tree landed next to him and a big branch flew towards the church. If not for Hercules who happened to be parked right outside the church sliding doors, the branch would have smashed through the glass and seriously injured 5-6 people who were standing right there, including 2 young children and Claire.

What a legend.

The storm damage really dealt a big blow to Hercules, but thank God, Suncorp decided not to write him off and fixed every panel that was damaged! We ended up with an almost brand-new car!

Another incredible thing he did for us lately is move practically our entire house. Two weeks ago Claire and I moved from Indooroopilly to Everton Park. This was mostly because I started teaching at Northside (I can walk to school now in 12 minutes!) and our church is in The Gap, which is northwest-ish. We ended up having a delivery truck to help with the really bulky stuff like the beds, fridge, dining table, sofa set etc, but apart from that, we managed to move everything else through Hercules! Not in one trip of course...maybe about 20 trips in total :p But still!!

Because the Mazda 2 is classified as a fairly small car, it's assumed that it would have a small storage space too. You couldn't be more wrong! Once all the seats are down, Hercules has more space than many medium to large sized cars. He even has enough length to move my full sized digital piano.


Everything you see in these next few photos was all transported to our new house through Hercules over a period of 2 weeks.

What a legend.

I should mention that our place looks a lot nicer than that now :p Our getting it was yet another story of God's grace. More on that another day.