Obviously being in Sydney we wanted to see 'the fireworks'. Along with the 2 million other people who were due to rock up there. I wanted to spend it with my pal Joanna as we've got quite close as friends. Jo was working until the evening though, so the plan was for me and Valerie (who I met on Fraser Island) to go queue up to get in to the Botanical Gardens (where you see the fireworks from) and then when Jo was done she'd come find us. Yes, well. We got to the gardens at midday and there were already such queues. We queud for 2 hours in the scorching heat, carrying our heavy picnic load, and then decided that actually Joanna wouldn't even be able to find us if she even got in to the park later on. There was another 3 hours of queing to go so we bailed and went and chilled out in the park all day, with our picnic and our box wine and music. It was such a nice day. As the evening fell we got all excited (except for when swarms of bats circled above us. We were not so excited about that) and then were evenetually joined by Joanna and Natsuco, her flatmate. We chilled there for a bit and then headed to Jo's friend's house nearby, who happened to have a rooftop view of the harbour bridge! The fireworks were amazing. I only thought I should have filmed it as they were finishing up. Doh!
And then we partied all night long and I eventually got back to my bed at about 6am.
But it didn't stop there. 4 hours later I got myself up and over to Joanna's and we had another celebration to see the UK new year in. The London fireworks were ok too I guess!
And then we spent New Year's Day lying down because that's pretty much all we could manage...
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