For activities in the day, we walked down to the St. Sebastian Church and tried to find an uncle's house where Jay had stayed as a boy. We found it. Of course, everything had changed.
I spent some time in the pool and we often walk to the beach just to stare at the water from the sand. I definitely went in the Indian Ocean as this was the final day of the year.
It gets dark early in Sri Lanka but of course the fireworks weren't until midnight. We walked to the public beach park that we'd visited yesterday. This evening there were a lot more activities and people.
We decided to walk back along the beach rather than the roadway. It seemed like a much bigger chore because of the sand. But the atmosphere was great as many hotels were putting on their own special evenings.
We could see fireworks in both direction as midnight struck. It is amazing to think we're now in 2024.