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Saturday, 06 January 2007 |
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 A couple of other funny things that I could have mentioned. When we first arrived at the Cenotaph to watch the fireworks it was only about 8:30pm and there wasn't anyone else there so we all walked down to the waterfront to buy an icecream. No one else in Mures other than Emma seemed to notice that the very funny Akmal Saleh from the television show Thank God Your Here was sitting at a table right next to us. By the time she thought to grab her phone to take a photo he and the woman he was with had left. Then there were the sprinklers. The whole Cenotaph area is watered at night time with recycled water from the waste water treatment plant. The silly Hobart City Council didn't turn them off for New Years Eve! We were all relaxed on our rugs with blankets, sleeping bags food, wine, kids etc etc when the first lot came on at about 11pm. Luckily they were just next to us but didn't get us wet. They then came on and off in different sections. The main field up there was covered in cars by midnight as the council had been advertising free parking and it was about then that the sprinklers came on all around and underneath the cars. You should have seen the water going everywhere. There must be a few cars in Hobart with very clean bottoms. I think it was only good luck that the hundreds of people that had turned up by midnight to watch the fireworks with us didn't end up showered with effluent just like their cars did.
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