Hogmanay...... a!

Hehe Jaz will appreciate the A! There

So yeah to counteract that rather serious previous post- heres the low-down from New Years!
Myself, Rich, Ian, Jaz, Nato, Gemma and Jerry all got up ridiculously early to meet at Kings Cross station to head up to Edinburgh for Hogmanay on the 30th. We were part of a tour package offered by Wanderers World (the same people that didn't front up with rugby tickets for the wales game- so i was slightly apprehensive) and were catching the 'party train' up to edinburgh. After a bit of a hiccup with the seating arrangements we finally settled into carriage D and we were joined by a Saffa called Matt who got on board the train and the last minute and sat with me Rich and Ian. Originally I had planned to go to sleep and maybe have a few brevvies at around midday but that didn't quite work out- so here it was that I cracked out my first stella at 8am and drank quite steadily all the way up. So by the time we arrived got to our hotel and rooms and went straight back out to the pub the day was very very hazy and I had one hell of a hangover the next day!















Heres a pic of me and Ian anyway with our first beers- it was still rather dark outside at that point too! And me jaz and nato with the naughty stick (not sure of the origins of that one!)


New years rolled along anyway- rather hungover but still managed to get up before 12pm for breakfast and Tim and I cracked out a beer at 11am to celebrate the kiwi new year. We went down to this really cool pub inside a cave where there was a pre-arranged aussie and kiwi new year party and had a few drinks there and then went back for a sleep for a few hours. It was then party in jaz and natos room- heres a pic of me and jaz on her bed- grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! It was then onto the street party- where the main street was blocked off and you could take as much piss in as you liked. Wish we had known that before hand as there was nowhere to buy any alcohol but we managed to find a pub and downed some tequila shots. Tim, unfortunately couldn't quite handle his and projectile vomited on some dudes back as he was heading to the toilet- heres a pic of rich and matt impersonating Tims mouth coverage...... we got a standing ovation when he emerged from the loo too- poor wee thing!
We headed down to one of the stages where this band i really liked called hard-fi were playing which was a bonus really as we hadn't realised. There were sooooo many people there it was wicked and the atmosphere was brilliant. There sadly wasn't a countdown but we knew it was new years when all the fireworks went off from edinburgh castle which was really wicked.

Im feeling a bit lazy and i can't be arsed writing much more so here an annotated version of the rest of the trip:

* went to pub after fireworks and got home at 4am
* got up next day, went to edinburgh castle, had a sleep, then got drunk again that night
* got home bout 2am, went to sleep and got up had breakfast and left.
* trip home was painfully slow and somewhat painful for the head.- But we did get home a little early than scheduled.

So that was it really- heres a pic of the view from edinburgh castle.....

Bloody good weekend was had by all anyway