Happy New Year from Sydney!

Happy New Year!!

Well, I cant believe it has been soo long since i have lost blogged, where have these past couple of weeks gone! I cant believe that i have been in Sydney for nearly a month either, i love it here though, its amazing!!!

We have had a great time and done so much, im not even sure where to start! The week before Christmas we spent on the beach at Manly. Its a great surfing town which you can reach by ferry in 30 mins from Sydney. You also get a great view of the harbour from the ferry. It also helped that summer is now definitly here and we could chill on the beach most days. After our Uluru tour it was a welcomed chilled out week, topped off with an essential trip to the hairdressers!! I think the hairdresser was quite disgusted at the mop that was my hair and i couldnt quite believe it when she asked 'and how do you stylye your hair!!!"

Christmas week we were back in the city and staying in the main backpacker area just by china town. In line with a traditional Eley Christmas Eve we went to the cinema and saw Four Holidays and then went out for a couple of drinks before i headed to Midnight Mass.

Christmas day we spent on Coogee beach, and it was fabulous! Although it was overcast in the morning it was still warm and by early afternoon we were frying, fantastic! The beach was rammed and there was a great atmosphere! Everybody sported something festive and we took a picnic and had a bbq on the beach, christmas crackers and all!! We like to think our mothers would be proud of our feast that day and we even topped that on New Years Eve which we did not think was possible, lol!! Christmas on the beach was everything i had always imagined it would be! Just completly chilled and moving at my own pace! It has to be the first Christmas that i didnt watch one thing on tv and spent the majority of it outside, i think we finally dragged ourselves off the beach at abou 7pm, fantastic!

After Christmas we had the luxury of a hotel for the week over New Years. It was great to stay on a different side of the city and the location turned out really well, even though we booked it with no idea of Sydney! It was also a great location for me as my cousin lives just around the corner from the hotel and so we had the luxury of using her oven to cook our NYE feast, thanks Becs!!! We stayed at Rushcutters Bay this week and decided to stake out a spot and watch the fireworks from this side of town and i am so pleased we did! It was a military organisation that required a lot planning (i loved it!!) but boy it was worth every second! Nicky got THE spot at 9.30am whilst me and jen sorted out the picnic and then joined her later in the morning and we sat there all day and waited. It was roasting!!! And too hot to do anything apart from lay!! But that was fine and when the sun finally went down early in the evening we enjoyed our feast and mini bar, there was a fantastic sunset over the city and then the fireworks started! They have a set here at 9pm for the familys and then the midnight ones as well! The theme this year was Creation and it was just spectacular! We were also really lucky (although it was planned!) that we were right in front of a firework barge as well, so you really did not know where to look at times! It was just a great evening, the atmosphere was fab and i cant imagine a nye anywhere else now!!!

There is loads more to update you on, but i think i will do that in a seperate blog, so its not information overload! We leave Sydney on Monday, but this weekend the Sydney festival starts and so we are staying with Becs for the weekend. There is no time for new years blues in this city, the part is just getting started!!!