CHRISTMAS IN TAWA

There's something special about the two or three weeks leading up to Christmas. It may be starting to get a little 'hectic', but it's still a special time of the year.

The pohutukawa (the 'New Zealand Christmas tree') is starting to bloom, Christmas lights are switched on (mid-evening), and end-of-year festivities are taking place. In Tawa that includes the local Christmas Parade, community carols, [click for links] and various pageants/finales. The photos shown here were all taken in Tawa in the two weeks leading up to Christmas 2005.

[Twelve of the pics below can be enlarged by clicking on them].


Putting up the lights.

The Main Road of Tawa
- getting into the spirit
of the occasion.

Christmas lights switched on .....


Even the churches get in on the act .....

Christmas pageant at a local church.



Intermediate-age kids
making Christmas cards
for Longview Home residents.

A visit from the man in red.

Singing carols for older
Tawa residents.

Tasty pre-Christmas eats.        

        Pohutukawa in bloom.

And so to Christmas Day itself .....

Stockings waiting to be unloaded after Santa's visit.

Taking part in the
community Christmas service
held at Tawa College.

Home to unwrap the
rest of the presents.

..... and then enjoy
a scrumptious meal!


"Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years ..... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart." - George Matthew Adams

More Christmas pages on tawalink.com:
.  Christmas page 1   |   Christmas page 2   |   Snoopy's Christmas   |   A white Christmas  .