Christmas 2017 - LP

This year for Christmas we adopted the “When in Rome...” philosophy and did it up in traditional Kiwi style with a BBQ at a ‘bach’ by the beach. For four nights (Dec. 22-26), we rented a holiday home (bach) in the Coromandel. Fortunately we have had 100% success rate with Airbnb and ‘The Mouse House’ did not let us down. We had a great little house with a short walk to the beach and a close deive to some other cool attractions. 

A few highlights included: 

Building a sand snowman at Hot Water Beach. Merry Christmas everyone! XO

Learning to surf - that was how Jonah wanted to spend his Christmas money from Grandma :)

Cathedral Cove - a beautiful walk along the coastline to some coves with a large rock formation between them. Mike and the kids jumped off a big rock into the water too :)

Kayaking along Cook’s Beach.

Picking clams from the water’s edge and cooking them for the first time ever (although they tasted OK, they were still a bit sandy, we have a new appreciation for properly prepared shellfish :)

Luckily Santa managed to find us at The Mouse House!

Family photo by a Pōhutukawa tree, New Zealand’s Christmas tree at Hot Water Beach. The beautiful red blooms come out in the summer, right before Christmas.

Although it wasn’t the traditional North American Christmas we are used to, I think we did a pretty good job of making it a special Christmas to remember!

Merry Christmas everyone and all the best in 2018.

Hugs,

Lynn 

XOXO