Melbourne New Year 2011

It's New Year and the fireworks have finished and the weather has cooled down.

Today (31/12/2010) Melbourne experienced one of our famous heatwaves where the temperature reached 41 degrees and it was a windy 45 knots. The Yam's described it as being in an oven and Fiona exclaimed, 'the wind is making my eyeballs burn!'

Luckily our itinerary for the day was Highpoint Shopping Centre which was blissfully air conditioned.  Anthony and I did a quick tour then went to Borders for some free reading.  It was so hot that when Mr Yam popped out for a cigarette break, the heat was too much for him and he had to retreat indoors, sans nicotine hit!

We came home and had a quick shower and light dinner before leaving for the New Year Eve fireworks.

Melbourne was treated to two lots of 10minute firework spectacles - one at the family friendly time of 9:15pm and another for the adults at midnight at multiple spots within the City.

I took Anthony and his family to the 9:15pm one at Docklands and from the get go we had to fight and dodge our way onto the tram into the city, then wait ages for the Docklands tram which was naturally packed.  The Waterfront was packed with families and we contributed to the crowd.

After fighting our way onto the packed tram back into the City, we went to Pepperoni's which is my favourite pizza shops in the city.  We had a late dinner where we almost polished off 2 large pizzas, garlic bread and a 1.25litre drink as part of the au$29 deal.  I say Almost because had about 3 leftover slices.  Not too shabby considering we had Fiona with us and she doesn't eat much!