Cricket...

As I posted last week, we went to the cricket on Saturday. I had been worried that the game would be over pretty quickly - NZ had no hope of winning and might have collapsed within an hour or two. As it turned out, they lasted most of the day, leaving the Indians with just 39 runs to get, which they knocked off with ease.

I borrowed a monopod and teleconverter from Tony, which was useful to get some nice-ish photos (well, the monopod at least - the teleconverter results in rather poor quality... Tony did warn me!).

The kids came with and enjoyed the day as well - Ben said that his favourite thing about the day was getting to watch the cricketers. He did watch it a bit (never for all that long at one time though - he is 3 after all!). We had a spot on some level grass, so there was plenty of space

behind us for him to run around and play with his cricket bat and tennis ball - and watch some slightly bigger kids playing cricket as well. During the lunch break, we got to go onto the playing surface (when last could you do that in Australia?), which was lots of fun - we played "cricket" there and went and had a look at the pitch (which was roped off, obviously).

Joanna had a bit of a nap in the afternoon in my arms and generally wandered around having a bit of fun - it wasn't until right near the end of the day that she was getting a bit whingy (probably as much because she was tired as anything else).

We decided that some takeaway Indian curry was an appropriate way to end the day, but Ben didn't want Indian curry - he just wanted "normal" curry! We gave him some Indian curry which he pronounced as being normal, so it was all good.

It was a pretty tiring day, but we all had lots of fun!

There's lots more photos at flickr- check them out!