Cool In Melbourne

Baby sitting and football are the two major topics since I last posted. We are catching our breath a little prior to heading away for two lots of two nights! Later this afternoon we will drive to Drouin and spend the evening with Barry and Rainy. It will be great to catch up. Then tomorrow (Monday) we move on to see Russell and Irene and spend an evening with them. Russ also wants me to set up his new Media Player for him. Needless to say I accepted that offer with glee!

After a big cup of coffee later in the afternoon on Friday I stayed awake to watch the Fremantle Carlton game which was live on TV here. Because most Australian Rules footy games are played in Melbourne there is very little 'live' TV coverage. Games are usually 'delayed'. As Queensland is not seen as a major Australian Rules state, 90% of matches seen there are 'live'. Carlton just missed by one goal to defeat Freo!

Saturday was to be the big day, Trish (who follows Hawthorn) and I were catching up with good friend (and Collingwood supporter) Eddie to watch Collingwood Vs Hawthorn at the MCG. We left at about 11 am, locked the house up as the others were off to the movies and went to hop in the car we keep here. However Trish was using her keys for the car in Caloundra so of course they wouldn't work. And as we didn't have the correct car keys, we didn't have house keys either! So we were locked out of the house without any keys to get back in!

Pandemonium broke out. Eventually friend Carol drove us to the local station where we caught a train into the city and the MCG! We were about half an hour late catching up with Eddie! The seats we got were great and Trish was impressed with how I 'rough' it when I head into the MCG! But the best thing for her was Hawthorn's 4 point win over the top side Collingwood! Eddie wasn't so happy! There were over 76,000 people at the game.

The finals begin next week and I am going to St Kilda and Geelong on Friday night and then Collingwood and Western Bulldogs on Saturday night. The other two matches will be played interstate so will be live here on TV.

The long 1 hour journey home in the train was 'interesting'. The train was crowded and when you no longer live here, you forget just how cosmopolitan Melbourne has become. There were all races and religions travelling home that trip!

More footy on TV that night finished a good day! The kids went to the movies and we looked after Charlie and James.