2015 IS HERE

For New Years this year, Tom wanted to have the full experience of living in Sydney.  Last year, we went down to the Harbour to see the fireworks and only stayed for the 9 o'clock show.  The 9 o'clock show is for families with children and it is quite BEAUTIFUL! However, the BIG BANG show at MIDNIGHT is when they pull out all of the stops!  

Sydney spends about 7 million dollars on the fireworks show and you can definitely see it.  However, it was rough making it to the midnight show.  We were waiting down beside the bridge on a TINY patch of grass for about 8 hours (Tom was there for about 12 hours), crammed into our very small space with 1 million of our closet friends.  Two of my children were suffering bouts of claustrophobia just wishing all of the people would go home.  It was a hot summer day with very little breeze basically we were not feeling the happiest.  The life of a sardine, living in a teenzie tiny can, is not my idea of a GREAT time.

We endured the less than ideal conditions until the 9 o'clock show hoping that once we saw them we would be revived and it would push us over the midnight hump.    When the family show began one of the bridge pylons blocked our view.  Jane burst into tears and immediately Tom and I wondered if we had just made the biggest mistake of our lives by pushing them to wait the night away.  

We were feeling quite deflated but decided to just push through, no turning back, 12pm here we come. The midnight show did not disappoint us. The fireworks were UNBELIEVABLE.  I grew up in Washington DC and I thought I had seen fireworks.  Nothing I have ever seen compares to the New Years Eve fireworks off the Sydney Harbour Bridge!  It was mind blowing!  At one point fireworks were spilling over the edge of the bridge like a waterfall with fireworks completely crazy on the top.  We were overwhelmed and so excited!  It was a night to remember.  We joined the mass exodus with the other 1 million spectators and we did not make it home until 2 am in morning (a few of us were feeling like we might melt down).

It was a WONDERFUL, BRIGHT, once in a LIFE-TIME experience (I don't know that we will endure the crowds ever again).