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Published: January 17th 2010
We spent a fairly typical Christmas Day, mostly at home (for one large pending reason) and after lunch, Monopoly (New Zealand edition) commenced and continued for the next 3 days...
Later in the day we headed down to the beach for a walk in the late afternoon sun. There were lots of people still down there enjoying the food's-all-gone-but-we-still-have-beer-and wine stage of their bbq's, while most the kids continued to play in the park.
Someone had thoughtfully left a decorated tree on the beach to make us feel christmas-y in the baking heat. The Pacific was cold, but usually is on the east coast, courtesy of the the antarctic and great southern ocean, but not too cold to prevent a quick paddle.
Dinner waited until 9.30pm when it was cool enough to enjoy outside (and bearable enough to be inside cooking). We lit some outdoor candles that we had found in the garden (see photo). They apparently were only single-use. Some family members joined us via skype so we weren't alone. Also some pretty huge insects came out of the forest to toast themselves on the burning candles - 2 inch long chargrilled moth anyone?
We enjoyed
a spectacular sunset, marking the end of our second-ever christmas day in New Zealand.
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John Glennon
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It's magic!
David Blane, eat your heart out!