HAPPY NEW YEAR!

As the title says officially I celebrated the new year before any of you... =] but its taken me a day and a bit to put in another post... and it's not because I was hungover, no that's right, first sober new years in 11 years.. We went to Mrs Macquaries Chair to see in the new year along with 20, 000 other people. now I'm not usually one for crowds but it was absolutely fine, we found ourselves a good spot on the grass and settled in for the day. Yeah we got there at 1pm after being in the queue for about an hour which considering its size (see pictures) was not too bad. They were checking all bags and not letting through unopened containers of drink or glass. anyway with eski in tow, a sunshade, tarp, blankets etc we were good to go. We spent the day grazing on the food and people watching, Lisa and I had to put on our sunglasses even though it was cloudy to avoid anyone noticing our stares!


The constant stream of people walking back and forth in front of us was studded every now and then with a whole group of police and internal security keeping an eye on the crowd so I can hand on my heart say I felt the safest I've felt at such a large event. The day passed by uneventfully, just like a picnic in the park with 20,000 other people mind, the only blot on the day was that James (Lisa's future hubby) was not able to join us, as he was fighting the last dregs of a nasty bout of food poisoning! =[.

so dusk rolls in and looking up at the sky what do i see but a number of pointy, winged furry things.... yep you've guessed it... BATS! Swooping around far above us, but they soon legged it (or should that be winged it?) as soon as the first fireworks went off which were at 9pm, the family fireworks, which were quite impressive, gave us a taste of what was to come. After these we decided to relocate to try and get a better view of the bridge, which we did after much scouting and boy am I glad we did, although our view was slightly obscured by the big old fig tree we could still see a quarter of the bridge and the opera house through the tree. Yes it was as spectacular as it looked on TV. The theme was spirit and to get into the "spirit" of things we were asked to wear something blue, not a problem for me as that is part of my colour scheme for my summer wardrobe! It was so nice to see so many people joining in.

so after the fireworks we packed up the stuff pretty quick as we had at least another 2 hours journey home, walking to the train station with everyone else, we just made it onto the train with no waiting and on to the station where we had parked, not worries or delays and we were all safely tucked up in bed by 2am =]

As I said before first sober new years in a long time but waking up the next day with no hangover (well, still feel rough because of stupid jet lag) and full memories of the night definitely the way to go! I hope all of you had a wonderful new years celebration!

so today a day of nothing much just a visit to the food porn emporium, but tomorrow a proper journey into the city (did a drive though the other day but didn't stop) I will let you know how it went! =]
lots of Love
G & D
XXX

P.s I've got a few of photos of the fireworks but to be honest the're a bit shit so I have to go through and pick out the best. =]