Mongolia at last

Well we arrived in Mongolia last night, too late for the border so we set up home just near the gates so we could be ready early in the morning, unfortunately the Russian side did not open until about 9.30, we had to pay a fine at the Immigration Office as we had stayed longer than 7 days and not had our card stamped, still this is the only fine we paid as we have managed to avoid the Police fines through the whole journey (so far) the Mongolian side of the border was weird, we exited Russian and drove for about 30 minutes in what we assumed was no mans land, then we saw a final Russian post, a further 15 minutes down the lane we saw the Mongolian office, first Clint was sprayed for bugs, then we had a short visit through passport and immigration control, but the vehicle import part took ages, 7 hours, the first hour seemed to go quickly, lunch time was approaching and suddenly everything halted while they tootled off for some Marmot stew or something ( we expected this to be fair) but the next 5 hours were a bit of a drag, we came across a couple on Motorbikes who were driving from Southport to Australia where the were emigrating to, hope we see them again on our journey, it was good to speak to someone else in English! We are currently in a hotel with WiFi, hopefully get a Mongolian Sim card tomorrow, very knackered and slightly traumatised after driving up a mountain through the mud because the road had been washed away today in heavy roads, mint! Night all xx