Our first Kiwi christmas was a not like any other christmas we'd had before. We were in Auckland. We wore sun hats and shorts. Gareth and Neil barbequed some meat and veggie burgers.
Neil's even got his Santa apron on. Ho Ho Ho. It stayed sunny until well after 8pm. We went to the beach a couple days later.
It wasn't all novelty though. There was some of the 'regular' christmas stuff too. Family was gathered. Presents were opened. Way too much food and drink were consumed (in Lindsay's case, too much sparkling grape juice. Just enough ice cream and cake.)
New Zealand is the first place in the world to see in the New Year too. So it was cool to be here for that, although, we didn't actually see much more than the inside of our eyelids when midnight struck. It was a very low key New Year.
2009 was a big year for us, what with emigrating and all. 2010 is looking to be pretty big too - we move into our new house and we welcome our baby boy into the world. And there will be no rest in 2011 either - that's when the Rugby World Cup comes to New Zealand....
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