December 31, 2004 - Sydney

After dinner, Joe, Adrienne, Stephanie (13 yrs) and Alvin (6 yrs) all came up to our hotel to watch the New Years fireworks. They do fireworks twice in Sydney Harbour - once for the kids at 9pm, which is when it's New Year's at the International Dateline - and again at midnight. We're on the club level (30th floor), so we had access to the club and had this great view of the 9pm fireworks. The little white smudge at lower left is the opera house - that's how huge these fireworks were! We're going down in just a couple of minutes for the midnight show... so Happy New Years everybody - all the best for 2005!! We're thinking about all of you!!