Margaret and Pino's Journeys: Last day of 2010

I’m really not looking forward to the 1st January and do you know why? It will mean the countdown to returning to Rome L

Today we took the train to Hawkesbury River to meet up with Sue’s cousin Kim and her husband. When we arrived at the station and the train was about to depart we heard someone shout “Hold the train” a lady was running to get the train and they actually waited for her.

Kim was there at the station and she drove us to a lovely picnic area where her husband Ivan had held a table and BBQ for us. Kim bought some lovely food for us to eat, Lamb and sausages to cook on the BBQ and lots of other goodies and a nice bottle of white wine as well. It was such a pleasant lunch with not many people in the area we were in.

After everything had been cleared away and packed into the car we drove down to the river where we did a lovely ferry ride on a really old ferry boat, it was built in 1948.

The skipper of the ferry was such a nice man he said he always sings the Beatles song – Here comes the sun – because the ferry’s name was Sun. At one point he said for me to have a go at steering the ferry then walked off and left me to it, everyone thought it was really funny when the skipper walked to the back of the ferry to do something while I was at the helm.

We had a wonderful day!

When we returned to Suzie’s house it was a quick shower and change because we were going to her friends house in Neutral Bay to see the New Year in and also the fireworks of Sydney Harbour.
Here they do 2 firework displays one at 9 pm and one at midnight, the 9 pm is for the children so they can see a firework display then off to bed so mum and dad can have their fun. On the drive to where Sue’s friend lives we had to pass by the beaches and there were lots of people having BBQ’s.

To see the Harbour fireworks people had been camping out since yesterday. The weather was just glorious after a very hot day there was a lovely evening breeze.

As with all of Sue’s friends we were made so welcome and the food was great. We feel like we haven’t stopped eating HA!

Although we weren’t at the Harbour itself we had a great view of the firework display they were magnificent!