new wheels...

Yep. We did it. We bought a car! We bought our very own car - with our own money! We're so adult-ish! We are the brand new owner of a 1992 Mitsubishi Chariot... it's large enough to haul all our stuff around and powerful enough to get us up and down all the crazy NZ hills... yet, has fairly good gas mileage - I think it works out to around 24 miles/gallon -- but that's converting from kilometers and liters, so I could be way off...

It's cute! It's blue and is thankfully and automatic... we found it on their idea of a CraigsList and it turns out that the seller's name is James Dobson. No - not from Focus on the Family fame, but our new friend, the Brit, James Dobson. He and his traveling mate Laura have been on a year long adventure -- leaving New Zealand soon for their last stop, Fiji. They've been in China for 3 months, SE Asia for 3, Australia for 3 and now are heading back to London from whence they came. They're SO sweet and really gave us a break on the price... so lucky for us, we didn't break the bank.

Yes, the thought did cross our mind that a 1992 vehicle is freaking 16 years old (yikes!!), but it seems to be running well and they had a lot of tests/maintenance done on it so it's in tip top shape. (Side note - weird that 1992 was 16 years ago, huh? I was 8 when this vehicle came out and Josh was 10... so weird...)

Well, there she is. Our own personal Chariot... pics to come!