Yes! Bag is about 30lbs. I come 13 pounds under weight.
As for my passing the test... I think it was luck. And I only had to do a 45 degree angle park (over here you get one of three, 45 angle park, reverse paralle park and three point turn) The instructor got in the back seat and in my nervousness I asked if he had life insurance as a part of his job or something. Silly me. Of course he would... Anyway, getting in the car with me a still a bit of a white knuckle ride! I'm working on it
Good luck with the quest to find a new skin basher. It'll be good to have a complete family once again.
Have you tried looking in the cupboard under the sink? That'd be the last place I'd look for a drummer, and you know what they say "Always in the last place you'd look."
Aussie hugs,
Laura