Carnival and Santa Parade

Saturday was a busy day for us as we got up nice and early and headed to the gym for a morning workout. We then made a picnic lunch and headed off to the west coast to Piha beach. We've been here before, but decided that with the hot sun shining brightly it was a good day to go to the beach. We relaxed on the beach for a while and put our feet in the water, but not more (it was too cold for us).

We then got ourselves ready for the PwC Christmas function which had a theme of Brazilian Carnival. (We unfortunately didn't find any costumes to suit our styles, so we just got dressed up for the night) We began the night at Gareth's and Claire's for some pre-party drinks and then headed up to the big bash. It was amazing and the costumes that people had were very impressive. There were also some Brazilian dancers (scantily clad) and music which was played at various times throughout the night. Overall the evening was a great time and over 900 people were there. The quality of the video isn't great below, but take a look:

Today was another beautiful sunny day which began with us watching the All Blacks vs. England game (or at least the replay from the game which occurred over night) at 8am. The 75th Annual Santa Parade started at 2am and we wanted to make sure we watched this again this year. It was estimated that 250,000 lined the streets for the parade. It was a very long parade, but had some nice floats as you can see and SANTA at the end.