December 31st

Happy New Year from Sydney!!

We have decided to take a few weeks out and have a really special holiday to celebrate what we've come through over the last year. Dave has been to Australia a few times and loves it and he's always promised to take me here one day and show me around - so this is the day!! We landed on the 30th December (in time for New Year) and are here until the 30th January :)

What an amazing place to spend New Year and see the most incredible fireworks display ever! And what an amazing story we have to tell already....

We planned to watch the fireworks from a garden area that looked over to the harbour bridge & opera house. On the way to get our place, amazingly we bumped into friends from Swindon who were in Sydney for the weekend! We were amazed to see them and stopped to chat for a while, but by the time we got to the entrance gate the place was full and they stopped people going in - we were 3 from the front!! We were devistated as this was meant to be the highlight of our trip. We wandered around for about an hour and thought we wouldn't even get to see the fireworks from a distance and in the end we decided to go to the central area right next to the bridge where we knew it would be impossible to get in. Amazingly, after the 9pm fireworks a lot of families with kids left and they let a handful of people into the Rocks. We somehow managed to get a front row seat - next to people who had been queuing since first thing in the morning or even the night before! The most amazing view we could ever have hoped to get!

It just goes to show that sometimes when what we think are bad things happen, it's because God has an even better plan in store.