Say Hello to Summer

Its that time of the year again when the sun comes out, the water gets warmer, the nights get longer and memories are made... SUMMER! To be perfectly honest, I'm not really the kind of person that spends a lot their time outside and half the time I try my very hardest to avoid all contact with the sun by wearing big floppy hats, sunglasses and sticking to the shadows, and my friends have even gone as far as to call me a vampire more times than I can count, and honestly I'm pretty close with my pale skin, my preference to the night and my love of the colour black, but even I have to admit than when summer finally arrives, all my aversions to the sun disappear and I spend as much time as I can outside, "trying" to get a tan and enjoying the summer season. 

A couple weeks ago when the first day of December was supposed to mark the beginning of summer, I, as well as everybody else in New Zealand I'm sure, was beginning to get a little pessimistic and was beginning to think that maybe summer really doesn't exist here in little ol' NZ because the days were grey, dull, wet and cold, but then two days ago, the clouds began to depart from the sky, the pohutukawa trees began to bloom bright red and weather turned hot Hot HOT! 

With the arrival of Summer means the coming of Christmas! The most amazing time of the year when we get to spend time with our family and friends, giving gifts, eating yummy food and basking in the Kiwi Summer Christmas Sun. Anybody who isn't from this part of the world must find it extremely weird that our Christmas is in summer, but us kiwis are so used to it, we wouldn't really have it any other way (although between you and me, I wouldn't mind experiencing a winter Christmas at least once). Now, we've just gotta keep our fingers-crossed that the weather stays this nice for the rest of the summer months.