Wednesday, January 2, 2008

new years on new years?



After calling home to Detroit on Sunday night (Dec 30) - their time, which was right before we were about to go out for new year's eve on Monday afternoon, Dec 31st, to wish everyone a happy new year. Adam and I just did an easy celebration at the Union and then to a few pubs on Rundle Street. Apparrently, New Year's Eve is not a huge deal over here, in fact, it was probably one of the most low key new years that i can remember. Our boy Reesy called from Sydney, and that was pretty much the highlight of the night, that and telling a journalist I became friends with from the Advertiser how Michael Jordan was not a better all-around basketball player than Magic Johnson (albeit, probably in vain since 99.9% of the world disagrees with me). The other cool thing was that Australia was one of the first places for the new year to hit, in fact, I didn't realize how ahead we were until on New Year's Day, around 430 PM I was able to call Rachel in New York and finally wish her a happy new year. Speaking of the actual day - so the real celebration was on the actual day itself, when most people in the States are recovering and watching college football, Crabby and I were at a venue called the Shores, on the beach, where we saw De La Soul (one of my favorite old school hip hop groups from the States) and tons of other music and food, with thousands of people and really good aussie beer. I've never had that much fun on new year's day - meeting gorgeous models, listening to great music, with a great friend, in 90+ degree sunny summer day.

Not much else going on this week - last stretch of the 2-week off from baseball since our first game back from the break is Jan 6th.

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