An Aussie New Year
Monday, December 31st, 2007Happy New Year!! It was a brisk 42 degrees here for NYE… that is in celcius though, which we just found out converts to 107F!! Paula and I rang in the new year at Melbourne’s enormous city party. We followed the crowds and found a seat for the fireworks along the river in Melbourne. Paula noticed, although I had no clue, a barge floating near the other side of the river… dark, blending into the background, no more than 50 yards from where we were sitting. When the clock struck midnight, much to our surprise, the barge came alive and let out a massive firework display. We’ve never been directly under the fireworks before… pretty amazing. We even had bits of ember fall on us:)
Melbourne definitely knows how to do NYE. They have multiple stages in various locations around city center and many other attractions to divide up the crowd, although it still is an enormous crowd. When the fireworks go off, they are not in one spot (like in NYC behind the Statue of Liberty, or in DC behind the Washington Monument, or in Sydney behind the opera house), they launch fireworks from the roofs of skyscapers, from our barge and from other points in the city. When the finale comes, the entire city lights up. It’s magnificent!
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