The long trek

Today we had a 5:40 am pick-up time! We were off to do the Tongariro Crossing, a 12 mile trek. It was awesome. So beautiful! A lot of the filming for Lord of the Rings was done there. Mark and I were champions, which he soon regretted. We were the first two to finish. It was a 19.9 km hike, so about 12 miles. We started at 7:30 am and we were supposed to end around 3 or 4ish. We were out of the woods at 12:30 pm! So we had to wait until 3 pm for the first shuttle to depart. Mark was not thrilled about that. I was so tired that I just slept for some of the wait.
When we returned we got the moped again, just one this time, I let Mark drive. Oh, and btw-we drive on the other side of the road over here!! So, that just adds to the difficulty I had yesterday! lol We went back to the natural hot spring which was amazing yesterday, but today the river was low and you couldn't sit under the waterfall because it was just too dang hot. Ah well, yesterday was wonderful and I did sit in the hot water for a little bit today. Dinner was across the street from the hostel, we were both starving from our hike. We also got to play a little more of our daily game of pool :)