New Year in Sydney!

So after nearly three weeks freezing my arse off in the UK and running around like a mad person trying to see everyone I hopped back on a plane to the other side of the world again! It was great to see everyone again and it was amazing how easily I slipped back into life back home again but I wasn't quite ready to give up my Oz work visa just yet...

The cheapest option for me to get back to Oz was with Korean Air which was an interesting decision! It wasn't too bad overall I guess, the first flight to Seoul was about 11 hours and I had some good movies to watch, the food, although wasn't Qantas standards it was edible (although they did try to feed me a Korean style breakfast which didn't go down too well so was quite happy when they managed to find me a western style meal!), and even though the old woman next to me didn't speak a word of English she was harmless enough!! Then after about 4 hours at Seoul airport it was back on another plane to Sydney. This time, for the first time ever I think, I had a normal person sitting next to me who I could talk to! Which was lucky really as we didn't have our own TVs so how else was I going to pass 10 hours?!

Anyway, we landed in Sydney about 7.30am and it was already about 21 degrees! This is what I've missed!!! The weather is fab over here at the moment so it's all good! I had one day to recover and then it was time to celebrate the New Year!

Six of us had decided to pay a ridiculous amount of money for a decent view of the fireworks over the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge. Seeing as this is the only time I plan to be in Sydney for New Year I figured we might aswell do it properly! I had started to wonder if this was such a good idea, but then the thought of camping out in the Botannical Gardens all day didn't really appeal so I think in the end it was the best thing to do. We had an amazing view right by the harbour and could see across without any annoying people in the way! We got a three course meal, a bar on hand and a little dance floor so we were sorted for the night!! And I have to say this rates as one of the best (if not the best!) New Year ever!! There were fireworks at 9pm and midnight and they were just spectacular! I'm not a big fan of fireworks normally but these were pretty damn impressive!! And they went on for ages too!

After midnight we got a bit carried away on the dance floor - I met some random Spanish guy that I decided to talk at (my Spanish always improves with the more alcohol I drink!) and so he was spinning me round the floor for a while, which left me with sore feet so I had to hobble home later! But it was all good fun and just an excellent night all round! We wandered into town once the party had finished and it was just heaving with people but there seemed nowhere else to go so in the end we made our way back to Bondi and passed out! Hello 2008!!