Wednesday, December 8, 2010

A Christmas Mystery Solved

This morning my Matthew, my fifth grader, asked if I knew where Christmas was first celebrated? I didn't. "New Zealand," he proudly informed me.

New Zealand??!!! that answer made absolutely no sense to me! I was skeptical, even after he reassured me that his teacher was the one who had told him. Why would the inhabitants of New Zealand be the first observers of Christmas? Rome or Costantinople or pretty much any other location on earth made more sense to me than New Zealand.

Overcome with curiosity, I started googling and eventually got my answer: Because of its location on the international dateline, New Zealand is the first country to celebrate Christmas each year. Ahh..... So know you know!!


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