New Years Eve in Sydney

New Years Eve fireworks, Sydney
Originally uploaded by steverofe

Crikey, two blog posts in one day but I'm on a bit of a catch up again!

It's hard to believe I'm 32 and only just had my first Sydney based New Years Eve. It's long been regarded as 'the place to be' and did not disappoint. It was always going to be touch and go if we made it back from NZ in time to host a party at our place as our flight was scheduled to land in Sydney around 5:30pm on NYE. Fortunately Air New Zealand did not let us down and we even managed to meet friends Steve and Sara Rofe at the airport (they we're coming down from Queensland for the party) to share a cab to Balmain.

Some other friends Jane and Ian had kindly been round to our place earlier in the day to get the meat out of the freezer and drop in some balloons, lights and poppers. After setting these up the drinking started around 7pm and then the BBQ got cranked up. As far as NYE goes it was pretty tame for most the evening (we’re getting old eh) although we did have a few extra 'cheers' when Kris and Sarah returned from 'getting some fags' to announce they just got engaged! Sarah then spent a lot of the night talking to family and friends back in her home country Canada – bless her.

The kiddies’ fireworks at 9pm we're pretty impressive but nothing compared to the main event at midnight. The view from our bedroom balcony lived up to expectation, the photo next to this blog post an example of what we saw for around 15 minutes non-stop.
The last of us finished up at around 3am after a quick drink at our local, The London Hotel in Balmain and then a final session involving red wine and lots of cheese and crackers back at home - nice!

If we're in Sydney to see in 2010 it might be good to go right into the city somewhere and soak up the atmosphere there, we'll have to wait and see if that’s an option.

Cheers
Tim