Cricket at the WACA

This is the view from our apartment on the Indian Ocean. The sunsets are always prettiest when it's a bit cloudy. Looks like the clouds are made of gold.

Perth skyline at dusk, taken from the south shore of the Swan river. This is the same vantage point we'll have next weekend when we check out the Red Bull Air Race series over the Swan River.

Greg felt compelled to take in a cricket game at the WACA, to get a true aussie experience. This was a domestic one-day match featuring Tasmania against Perth. From the first bowl, to the last wicket, it lasts pretty much the full day ( 9hrs, with a pause for tea at 4:45pm). There are also 5-day test matches, and that is in fact how long the same game will go for... like a really really really long baseball game (I have heard it called 'Pommie Baseball'). It's very chilled out; we saw a grandma knitting for most of the game, and most of the crowd stumbles over after work gets out (4 hours into the game)!

The Ashes (International Cricket competition between England and Australia) are about to get underway... It's a pretty major deal here; England won the last one, so Aus has to win it back, of course! As if winning it the last 20 years in a row wasn't enough to give it up for ahwile. The Aussie's are sports fanatics.

Thankfully we brought our snacks and didn't have to resort to pies and chips until we got really desperate (we don't have an esky - cooller i.e. eskimo - to bring along with us to these events). We made a point of moving around alot to keep it interesting (and the seats were a bit lacking in comfort for me; should have brought a pillow!).