The 25th April is a half day holiday in New Zealand.
Anzac Day is about honouring the memory of WWI veterans who fought at Gallipoli in Turkey.
ANZAC stands for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps.
here's more info – thank you Wikipedia :-)
Tzipi and I had all the best intentions to get up early to go to the dawn parade, unfortunately our hard day of house hunting yesterday caught up with us, and the best we did was to hear the air force plane do its fly by at the end.
We did pop down to the Cenotaph later on in the morning to see the poppies.
And then Andrew took us out to Yum Cha for lunch.
Which was a nice relaxing end to a frantic weekend!
Tomorrow we're out for lunch with friends, maybe a spot of shopping or to the beach if the day is as lovely as today :-)
Always nice to get out and about, cheers Marie
ReplyDeleteTzip loves dim sum, that I know! She must have been thrilled to go to this nice restaurant. And the poppies are so lovely!
ReplyDeleteHow odd it is, that in the US and NZ Memorial Day is a picnic day while in Israel it's a mourning day (minimal radio, biographies of soldiers on the TV and other channels are down, restaurants and shops are closed etc).
Lest we forget, indeed. Great to hear on the news that there were record no.s at dawn parades across the country.
ReplyDeleteSharona, it is interesting indeed how different countries remember/celebrate/mourn lives lost in the name of their country.
ReplyDeleteIn the UK we have Remembrance Sunday, the first Sunday after the 11th day of the 11th month. And on the actual day, if it's a working day, some places still stop everything at the 11th hour and have a couple of minutes silence. When I was a teacher, our classes would also observe a period of silence.
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