Footy, Vietnamese, and Down To Drouin

The headline summarises exactly what has happened since my last post. Both my footy team and Trish's team will fight out this year's AFL Premiership. My team, Geelong, had a dogged 29 point win over a determined Western Bulldogs while Trish's team had a straight forward 54 point win over St Kilda. Geelong and Hawthorn have been the two strongest teams in 2008 and it is fitting they should fight out the Grand Final next Saturday. I will be there along with about 100,000 others to witness the match.

On Saturday we had a great Vietnamese lunch with our daughter Kim. Kim is over the worst of a very nasty cold and this was the first time we had seen her on this visit to Melbourne. I also caught up with Keith and Jeff at Saturday night's footy match. We enjoyed a couple of quiet beers together like we have done numerous times before while attending regular Saturday AFL matches over about 20 years or so.

On Saturday afternoon, Kate, Arj and the two grand children headed aff to birthday party. Charli went in her fairy costume and she thought she was just the most perfect thing ever. She seems very pleased with herself in this photo.

We were invited down to Drouin on Sunday by friends Barry and Rainy from when they had popped in at Kate's home earlier in the week. Though not a hot day, we enjoyed a great meal, some great hospitality and few drinks outdoors. Other friends Wayne and Launa were there too, they had recently returned from a week in Hawaii (which they just loved!)

Barry and Rainy have been living at Drouin (about 100k's south of Melbourne) for over 5 years now. It is an acre block and they have done a great job rejuvenating what had once been a 'tired' block of land. Barry loves to encourage birds to visit their yard and they have cockatoos, galahs, lorikeets and other birds feeding from trays they have set up with seed near their back door. These two King Parrots are probably the most beautiful of their visitors.