The last couple of days have been incredible. After a fantastic New Year’s Eve, my sister had a surprise birthday party for me on the rooftop of her apartment on the 27th floor. The view was of the city, the northern beaches and all the way to the Blue Mountains. After stuffing our faces in with the whole family including my cake, the family game me a birthday gift for 2 to climb the Harbour Bridge!! This was totally unexpected since each ticket costs $175 and before you say anything Raffi, the little Aussie battler is over 75 cents now and going up, good old Johnnie Howard.

I’ve also been to the beach the last couple of days, one cannot stay longer than 1 hour at a time, the sun is very strong here. I’m now off to a seafood BBQ at a friend’s now followed by a night club with my niece and her friends and my sister. Tomorrow another seafood BBQ at another friend’s for a get together from a friend up the coast Emily and her family.

The day before I leave I will do the bridge climb. After that I will go back to the place where I spent NYE and take day time pictures of the 7.5 million dollar views. Then a farewell dinner for me with my family and another nightclub with my niece.

I am running out of time and still have not seen half of the friends I was supposed to. I wanted to go to Canberra and to my favourite place on earth down the coast to Jervis Bay. Oh well there is always a next time.