As some of you may know, New Zealand is the first major country to see the rising sun each day and hence, the new year each year. This year we marked Richie's first new year celebration at the beach with a lot of other like-minded Kiwis. Richie even dipped his feet in the Pacific Ocean for the first time to celebrate (ok, totally not his idea, and he screamed because the water was cold). Note, in these pictures that this is the most crowded I have ever seen a beach in NZ. Quite often we have the entire beach to ourselves but Christmas and New Year's are traditionally spent at the beach and hence the proliferation of beach umbrellas and sun shelters (Essential beach gear due to that old hole in the ozone above NZ, thanks again to all those Aqua Net users in the 80's for that).
But Richie did get a kick out of the warm sand.
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