The tale of an American family moving from Europe to Polynesia.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Waiting for Christmas
Hawai'i is close to the international date line and on the "wrong" side of it. It is now Christmas over most of the world but we will be one of the last places for it to arrive. Along with our neighbors to the north the Aleutian Islands and French Polynesia to the south we are at UTC-10:00. Our closer neighbors to the south, Kiribati, moved to the other side of the date line in 1995 and have been celebrating Christmas all day now. The only ones behind us are one hour later in UTC-11:00, they are American Samoa and Niue.
While we are waiting, below is a short video clip T pointed out to me. (Don't worry, everyone is OK.)
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