Happy New Year everyone! Here's our lovely Sydney host Bel from CouchSurfing, me, and Amy. We were down on The Rocks in Sydney Harbour for the New Year's Eve celebrations. The fireworks were incredible! The whole bridge erupted in an amazing fireworks show. I took lots of pictures but, well, if anything we were too close! The pictures don't tell a whole lot because all you see is fireworks and not the stuff around it. It was really amazing. We didn't even really get there early. We walked down just after 11pm and found a great spot right by the water. What luck! I knew of people that found their ideal spots at 9am that morning. I didn't even get out of bed that early:)

Want some more pictures? Here you go!

This is Audrey, our first host in Sydney. We stayed with her and her roomate Megan for two nights. When we left to go find Bel's house we didn't have to go far. Bel lived almost right around the corner! Audrey drove us there anyway but we really could have walked. I think Bel's house is just four or so blocks away. It truly is a small world.

Here's my favorite picture (so far) of Sydney's Opera House. Beautiful!

Christmas time in Sydney

Speaking of Christmas, here's what my big Christmas meal looked like on the 25th. Yum!

...and then later on Christmas night.

Some of the great new friends I spent Christmas with.

More to come!

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Posted January 1, 2005 07:53 PM @ (GMT - 6)