After our tactical sleep and purchase of a really nice bottle of Cloudy Bay fizz we started the New Years Eve celebrations! The hotel had put on a band and then were serving champagne up on the roof top pool area for each of the two firework shows. the 9pm one was the family on for the kids and then the main event was at midnight.
George Street is has loads of pubs on it and they were all playing music and you could drink in the street. Check out the view from our hotel window of the amount of people that were out in the road. What amazed us is that there were so many people families, young people, middle aged like us, and older, so much to drink and we didn't see one bit of aggro or fighting it was such a good atmosphere.
We joined in the fun in the street and watched the 9pm fireworks from down there which were amazing - then we had ordered some room service hot seafood platter to have with our fizz and watched more of the street party and headed up to the roof around 10:45. The view was just fantastic and it really was the most amazing New Years Eve we've ever had - can't really explain how good the fireworks were - they went on for 15 minutes and I didn't want it to stop! Hundreds of boats were in the harbour all covered in lights and it was just magical - here's a really rubbish picture we tried to take just doesn't do it justice but you can see one of the tall ships covered in red lights as well as a firework!!
We eventually collapsed into bed at 2:30am after talking to Dave and Sally in New Zealand and trying to text everyone but as usual the phone network crashing!! - big tick for New Years Eve in Sydney :-)