12/25/07 – Merry Christmas!
Today we woke up and had some yummy breakfast. Then I went down to Reception to find out from Deb what the local access number was for our calling card and she said that they were making white bait with their breakfast and said she would bring us up some leftovers. White bait is this small white fish that is long and skinny and swims upstream on a local river, sort of like salmon do. Apparently it’s a big delicacy and has increased in price significantly to ~$125 per kilogram! People even guard their section of the river with shotguns where they catch the white bait because it’s so lucrative and some sections of the river are better than others!
So Deb brought us some plain white bait that had been browned and also some fritters that had white bait in them. It wasn’t bad, but it was kind of weird, so we didn’t really eat them, but at least we tried something very Kiwi authentic!
After breakfast and talking to my parents, we watched a movie and eventually played some tennis. It rained pretty much all day, but that didn’t bother us since we were just being lazy. It was a great Christmas.
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