Kiwis take the Christmas Holidays very seriously. Everything shuts down and people often head to the beach, to a camping spot, or a bach (a Kiwi term for a holiday house). All of our activities – orchestra, horse riding, karate, etc. stopped for the summer/Christmas holidays so it was the perfect time for us to …
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December in One Moment a Day
December was pretty awesome. We didn’t know at the beginning of 2018 that we would be able to be back with family for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and boy was I glad that we were. We headed up to help a client and we jumped back into the rat race a bit, but we also got …
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I guess I should throw in “Happy Thanksgiving” as well since It has been a while since my last post. The Vawters have left the water (not for good… don’t worry). After we settled Banyan into her slip in the marina near Whangarei, New Zealand, we quickly packed up our duffel bags and headed …