Auckland’s brand new Christmas tree in Te Komititanga Square, is looking pretty good this morning.
This tree caused a bit of a stir recently when it’s cost was made public. A ‘nice to have’ for sure but it is nice to have a Christmas symbol of some sort in downtown Auckland, especially since Santa was canned back in 2019 for being too creepy.
The enormous winking Santa that appeared on the Farmers department store for decades was deemed too creepy and even scary for today’s children😂. I had to go back to 2018 for my last sketch of the old guy (link here).
Nice to talk to so many people beginning their summer holidays today, some of them first time first time visitors to New Zealand - maybe downtown is getting its mojo back after a few years of post covid recession?