How to Throw an Australian New Years Party in 10 Easy Steps:

1. Start by making your studio apartment look like a 2 bedroom apartment to fit all your guests

2. Have an 80% Auzzie content quota to fill, but replace it with 15 of the most friendliest Canadians and UK’ers known to Sydney! (Not sure how this happened but our guest list consisted of 13 Canadians and 2 UK’ers)

3. Insure that there will be ample beverages available even though it is BYO. Make sure there is bubbly around to ring in the New Year!

4. Fill your bathtub with 10 bags of ice and throw all beverages in for the ultimate chill factor... then sit in the bathtub, and use VB’s and Coopers to replace ‘rubber duckies’ to cool off from the mid-day humidity of 40 degrees Celcius.

5. Gawk at how lucky we are to live in such a prime location! Spend the afternoon walking the streets and parks to see all the less fortunate people who had to camp out all day in the scorching sun to get a good seat to watch the fireworks. Some people went as early at 9am in the morning to secure their spot.

6. Ask your local government to supply 5 million dollars worth of fireworks and have 2 shows (one at 9pm and the other at midnight) Launch them off 4 barges in sequence along the water

7. Have everyone in your party ascend to the roof top once the sun sets and ask everyone in the building to join you up there with all their friends (This ended up to be a very exclusive party for tenants and 15 of their closest friends)

8. Hire a DJ to play music all night on the roof and get your buddy who plays the bongo drums to mix it up with the DJ to create the ULTIMATE ATMOSPHERE

9. Ring in the New Year with your closest mates at 12am and watch the most spectacular fireworks display as the barges lit up the sky along with the harbour bridge being the centre piece overlooking the opera house!

10. Finish the evening with a spontaneous dip in the roof top pool to cool down

This was truly a night to remember and we feel very fortunate for being able to experience a New Years in this fashion. We want to take this opportunity to wish everyone around the world a HAPPY NEW YEAR and hope they had a great celebration where ever you are....