Omgosh – my New Year’s Eve was AWESOME!!!!!  Not awesome in the everythingwentgreat kind of way but awesome in the I’mgoingtoleavemyplansuptofateandhopeitdoesn’tsuck kind of way.  Yep.  :)  My New Year’s Eve didn’t suck.  :)

After spending a leisurely day with the photographer from WA I had to make a choice.  WHAT TO DO FOR THE BIG COUNTDOWN TO A NEW DECADE??  Party?  Other Party?  Mingle with small group of friends?  Bondi?  City?  And with WHOM???  The photographer had a late night plane to catch so he was out of the question, I REALLY wanted to watch the fireworks so that took most of my friends out of the question (a lot of Sydney-siders can’t be bothered with the fireworks crowds) and THEN, much to my surprise, I got an unexpected email from a dude I’ve never met telling me that a dude he’s never met was in town from LA for the holiday and, if I was interested, the dude that neither of us had ever met may be looking for someone to hang out with for NYE. Say WHAT??  Yeah – I know.

So I sent a text to the dude neither of us had ever met introducing myself and VOILA I had NYE plans.

(don’t tell me you’re THAT shocked – this is ME we’re talking about – hee hee)

Sure, I could have played it safe and spent NYE with friends but HOW CRAZY was it for me to get this random email??  CRAZY!!!  So I took it as a sign :) and away I went.  I met him in a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people and we watched the fireworks light up the sky over Sydney’s Harbour – WAY COOL!!

(pics taken by him because I didn’t have my camera)

The only dumb part of the fireworks is that there was no countdown.  The fireworks started and we were like – umm – so it’s 2010 now??  Ten minutes into the display the crowd decided to have a ten minute late countdown.  Yeah – we did the 10, 9, 8, 7, thing TEN minutes late.  But it was better than nothing!!  We all needed the ever so psychologically important END of 2009.

And then I said goodbye to my new friend – but only temporarily.  The next day we met up for some beach fun.  What??  Daisy went to the beach to just – well – do beachy things??  I sure did!!  We headed over to Manly – the OTHER beach in Sydney ;)  I like it – it’s a little more relaxed than Bondi.

And gee whiz I’m just SO glad I went with my new friend (roll my eyes) because if I hadn’t I would NEVER have swallowed 5 tons of salt water and I wouldn’t have learned that tucking your bikini bottoms into your cheeks right before a photo (omgosh I can’t believe I’m writing this) elongates your torso and makes beach pics look better.  *shakes head at self for like the 30th time*  Hey!!  I didn’t want to know either – but the new friend and his LA hollywoodness ways wanted me and my narcissistic photo taking ways to know.  *big sigh – shake head – roll eyes – sigh again*  That’s right!!!  I just told you to tuck your bikini bottoms into your cheeks a bit for better beach photos.  (oh dear heavens)  But see for yourself …

Before:

After:

Ahahahahahahaha!  Ahahahahahaha!  Hahahahahah!  lol lol lol.  You mean you can’t tell a difference??  Yeah – I agree.  Boyz can be so dumb.  But I do have a new friend :)  and that’s pretty cool.   Here we are together – and btw – he’s PICKIER THAN ME about photos.  He actually refuses to pose for them – or puts up his hand or camera to block his face.  LAME!!  And shocking, I didn’t even know it was possible to be worse than me about pictures!!

I spent the next day with him, and the next day, and the next day – and will be spending tomorrow with him – and the next day – and the next day …  I’ll post pics of our Blue Mountain Adventure with Deeleea tomorrow :).  xoxo~Daisy (oh and I should be able to play blog catch up tomorrow – sorry for taking so long everyone!!!)