Louise had arranged to do two courses today – “Learn To Ride” and the “Basic Motorcycle Handling Skills” course and test. So, we were up with the sparrows, and in to Wellington to drop Louise off at the Victoria Street car park for 845am. Good luck for the day Louise! (She didn’t want me hanging around to distract her).
It promises to be a sweltering day! Louise did have a cold drink and lunch with her though, so she should have been ok.
I popped in to see Graham and Jayne just after 9. We chatted for a while until Sian convinced Jayne to let her drive to the shops. While they were out, Graham and I played Scattergories with Bethan – very hard game on a short timer! Bethan was doing really well!! Better than me I think….
Decided to go back home for a few hours, rather than hang around in Wellington. I met Alec and Liz (landlord and lady) when I arrived back and we started to have a chat about the bikes – they were fine with us having the two. Mostly they were dead impressed with Louise for giving it a go!
Popped back in to Wellington to pick up Louise – left at 3:20 and got there at 3:59, so 40 mins to the centre of Wellington, but that was with hardly any traffic, on a Saturday afternoon and keeping to the speed limit.
Found Louise propped up against a wall sat next to another girl who had been on the 2 courses as well. She’d PASSED! Evidently it was a close-run thing with the cone slalom bit, but she got it in the end. To be fair, you don’t often meet a cone slalom out on the road, although arguably you can quite often end up in a slalom on some of the roads, avoiding possums, gravel, rocks, landslides, trees…… that sort of thing!
Out of the 7 hours on the courses and test, Louise had managed about 10 mins for a very quick sandwich. On such a sweltering day Wellington had dropped all the wind normally found, so when she removed her helmet at the end of the day her hair looked like she’d just gotten out of the shower!!
We went for a few well-deserved coffees on the front at Petone. Luckily I’d taken the car to pick her up – she was fed up to the teeth with bikes and was pretty close to never wanting to ride one (except as pillion, and even then not for a while) ever again….
We headed home for a well-earned rest for Louise!