Our new bikes

On Monday we drove back to Taupo and got our medicals all signed off, so all we need now is to go to immigration and tell them we're healthy and we should be able to extend our visas for a second year.

While we were there we paid our usual visit to The Warehouse and Pak'n'Save, two massive shops which we don't have in our tiny town of Ohakune, and ended up buying a mountain bike each! We'd sort of planned to buy one, but maybe thought we'd have a look and price some up, but The Warehouse were having a sale and they were half price so we bought some, loaded up the Suby (which we found out today is in the top10 most nick-able cars in NZ) and bombed back to Ohakune.

The bikes were supposed to be '90% complete, needing only an average of 25 minutes construction'. This was obviously rubbish as a couple of hours later I haad both built up and we took them out for a spin!

Yesterday we took them for a real ride. We'd been keen to get up the mountain but the weather was pretty poor and everything was closed up the hill. We rode the Old Coach Road(our last blog) and it was super muddy and much more uphill than we remembered. Coming down was easy and fun though, splashing through all the muddy puddles.

The car should be going in for a service this week, so fingers crossed it'll be in good enough shape to make the 1000km trip down to Lake Paringa, if not it'll be a super long bike ride.