everyone re-unites in Sydney for New Years

The Sydney part of my Holidays:

28/29: After spending the whole day with the kids I took the 9pm bus to Sydney. It wasn’t quite a horrible as I though it would be, I had at least 5 hours of sleep I think. This bus stopped in about 5 different towns (one of them being Canberra) And I finally made it to Sydney Central Station by 12:15pm. Leslie was there to greet me and bring me to Cassia house in Darlinghurst to settle down before heading out to meet Katrina in Hyde park. We ventured through the botanical gardens (which we got lost in and couldn’t find our way out of) to the harbour front where we met up with Helenka. I got my 1st view of the opera house (which I proceeded to take about 50 pictures but I was might I say disappointed? It wasn’t crispy white like I had pictured it) and the harbour bridge. We walked around the Rocks (historical part of town) and then back to Cassia sfor a delicious dinner. I then refused to let my lack of sleep take control of me and headed out with Leslie, Cassia, Pablo, Annie and Nicole for a few drinks (one being snake bites, so delicious, it’s made of beer, cider and grenadine).

30th: We took the ferry to Manly beach (on the northern side of the bay) with a great view of the cbd, opera house and harbour bridge. The beach was gorgeous, although covered in people, Kat, Helenka and I enjoyed some massive waves.

31st: Checked out the downtown for new years festivities. There wasn’t much of exciting. So we headed home to prepare some dinner and pick up some alchy and then headed to rush cutters bay and park for a nice picnic and some goon and beer as well as our own version of pictionary featuring the white board. We then headed back to Cassias, finished our drinks, watched the 9pm fire works on tv and then headed to the harbour once again to squeeze into the crowd and bring in 2009 with some fireworks over the bridge, some friends, some champagne and 12 grapes. Twas an awesome night toped of with some Auld lang syne and spice girls singing.
(video of the fireworks : http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=v7UbL4nfeJE&feature=related)



1st: After a long rest and then a massive breakfast we took the bus to Coogee where there is the start of a gorgeous walk from there to Bondi beach. It took us maybe 3 hours, leading us through many bays and cliffs. It was gorgeous and very hot so we stopped in one of the coves for a nice swim. Once back Jinnie brought us to a nice Korean restaurant. Tasty. What an awesome start to 2009

2nd Was spent walking across the harbour bridge, visiting the Contemporary art museum, exploring darling harbour and china town with Leslie as my guide.

3rd: the highlight was getting a hot chocolate from the Lindt café and walking around the market at the rocks. I took the bus at 8pm back home to Melbourne and arrived at 6:30 am Sunday morning. The only problem was trains don’t start till 8am on Sundays garg!!!