A diamond night in Emerald City

There is something pretty cool about having Access Passes to areas other people can't go. By 4:30pm most people were already locked out of the Circular Quay area. After my final Baku shift for 2006 Jacky and I headed down to Deana's, desserts in hand and ready for a big night.

Location: 1 Macquarie St Circular Quay

Our View

Circular Quay never looked more beautiful, my work building is the one in the middle, we were going to watch the fireworks from there but...nahhh (good thing we didn't). We were so glad the rain held out.

The crowd below had been waiting since the early morning if not the night before, the area was so full it was sectioned off at midday.

Deana & her helpers spent all day cooking....what an awesome effort! The food was amazing.

What's a new years party without alcohol??


You've all heard of tequila shots with salt and lemon, but give this one a go - Cinnamon sugar, tequila & orange

then drink

and drink some more - so much fun!

Then came the 9:00pm fireworks - 'oohhh, ahhh'

Watching the fireworks made us all hungry, so Dee brought out the dessert! home made creme caramel, home made toffee & chocolate profiteroles and mango pudding with whipped cream.

Someone found some party hats from somewhere and the craziness and photo taking began.

"Bethanites say cheese!" there were so many attempts to take this shot, no one could keep a straight face and we would keep bursting out into fits of laughter. The girls bought Dee a special tiara with feathers to match her emerald outfit for her night in the Emerald City.

The boys wouldn't stop chanting "Jacky! Jacky! Jacky!" all night (like they were at a soccer match) and complementing Jacky on his 'tripod'. During one of the photos Adrian gave him a wet willy....this proves that age is not a sign of anything!

"Who loves Katina!?!"

The count down began...10..9..8............4..3..2..1..........

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fireworks burst from the roof top at work, we all broke into hugs and kisses to farewell 2006 and welcome 2007! It was an amazing feeling.

I just love New Years....our city is one spectacular place! Overall I think the 2006 fireworks were better with the whole waterfall under the bridge effect....but it was still an awesome display.

When the fire works ended we turned one of the bedrooms into our own dance floor and partied on for a few more hours.

It was such a fantastic way to farewell 2006, I don't remeber the last time that I had so much fun at a new years party. The food, the view and the people....such funny people! I laughed all night and started 2007 laughing. Jacky and I stumbled back home at about 3:30am which was actually pretty early considering the occassion.....what a night!

Deana Thank you. You are so wonderful in so many ways and always the perfect hostess!

Photo Album here.