Happy New Year!
Happy New Year one and all!
I had a rather spectacular celebration of this event last night, I must say. This was owing to a friend whose parent's live in Milsons Point, and wow did we have a view. It was truly amazing!
I didn't take my real camera, and have only the few phone snaps below, as I wasn't particularly interested in spending the night trying to get photos of fireworks (when you have a camera to your face ready to snap a firecracker at the right moment, you don't actually see said firecracker) but you will get the idea and the vantage point. The pictures take it wide a little, as in reality we were looking right down into Luna Park.
The downside of all the amazement was queuing for nearly two hours to get out of Milsons Point train station, and the insane hour at which I got him this morning. I shall probably go back to bed shortly. And I have to admit, that while standing there in luxury watching millions of dollars of fireworks explode into the sky and reflect in the waters of the beautiful Harbour, I had a strange yearning to be off in the countryside with some friends setting off a few crackers down the paddock. I heard someone say, 'why would you want to live anywhere else?' and I thought to myself, well, there are places where hills roll in the distance and a person isn't just a spectator among millions. City glitz just isn't really where my heart is.
One of the things I am going to consider in my "personal retreat" are the reasons why I continue to live in Sydney. But now that I have gone all reflective, as a person must do when they've had little sleep on a New Year's morning, I shall go back to my clean out and at least try to throw away some of last year's rubbish.
