New years in Sydney 01/01/2013

After spending some time on the plane finally we are down under. well almost. Passport control is cleared fine by Amine and guess what, Asta needs to talk to immigration officer (lol, usually, it's the Arab who gets stopped but here it was the eastern European lol. Somewhere in the world there is justice, you just have to find it ;) ).
Nonetheless she is in trouble, she says I need to inform my boyfriend that I am taken by you, and bam, Amine needs to talk to the immigration officer as well. 10min answering questions, where one of the weirdest towards Asta was: Can I get your business card? After replying that I don't have one we were free to go for customs.
Being directed to a sniffing dog was a nice experience. You expect to see a dog that is decent size to sniff your stuff, well here it was something different. First you see just a leash moving around and then when the dog reaches the end of the luggage pile finally you see who is sniffing your stuff. It is a very small, cute bigly. He is done with his duty and we are free to go.
Took a shower, stored our luggage in a safe place and off to the city. Some facts: time: 12.30, temperature: 26 C. Welcome to the summer :)
did you know that: People really walk upside down here, check the picture...
People are very relaxed here, we believe the sun and warm weather has something to do with this. After spending some time waiting for the shuttle bus we are dropped off at the Opera house(well close enough to walk there due to closed streets for new years celebration). We wondered around the harbour and saw that people are already choosing their spots for having the best view at 12 o'clock. (remark: now it is 14.00 and the best viewing points are closed due to reaching max capacity). Well, we decided to just walk around, see what is available and finally get some food not delivered by airplane catering companies.
We found a bar just under the bridge that served decent fish & chips and a bit less decent burger. The meal gave us some energy to proceed. At this point we haven't got a proper sleep for around 44 hours, nevertheless, we decided that the night is short, therefore, no need for a hotel in Sydney (We are having a flight to Cairns at 8:50 the day after).
So we took some very first pictures of the bridge and the Opera house and decided to find a parking place for new years celebration. We found a nice shadow under palm trees and sat down on the sidewalk. Since there is still some time to kill, and before you know it Asta is taking a nap. When Amine tried to do the same, he was not that lucky. Too many people tripping over him made napping a mission impossible. Nevertheless, the time was passing by and 21.00 o'clock show started. We realised that our spot is pretty good to see the fireworks over the opera house, but our loved trees, that were protecting from super hot sun, were also covering the view towards the bridge. Luckily our neighbours Australians tell us that after this show there will be quite some people leaving and we have a good chance to find a better place soon.
And that is what we did. Another 3 hours wait, with every 15 min voice from the loudspeakers reminding you about new years celebration in Sydney today, and the big show begins.
It is really worth to see it with your own eyes, TV does not show you even the half of the beauty. Well we hope our video will give you a small part of what we experienced.
Ohhh, one more thing, if you hear about the fire in the docks, it was just a small kebab booth that was on fire, no biggy ;) first people taught ahhh this is a new trick, there was no such thing last years. Then, they realised the black smoke coming from the kebab booth.