Aussie Footy here I come!

Saturday June 27, 2009

I was so excited for today. Ever since David e-mailed me an invitation to a Footy game, I have been excited to go. I even bought a Collingwood Magpie scarf. I slept in till 8:15ish. That’s pretty early for me to get up on a weekend, but I didn’t know when Jeff and Rosemary would be eating breakfast and I wanted to eat with them. During breakfast I recommended that Jeff buy some cough medicine that has guifenisen in it so that his coughs would go away. While they were out shopping this afternoon, they bought some and for the last three hours that I have been home, I have only heard him cough once! Yay for medicine.

My morning was spent reading. I finished the book The Last Lecture and it brought tears to my eyes. It’s a good book. You all should read it. I then started another book called Next Door Daddy. I am excited to read it. So far I have finished 2 books while here.

For lunch we had soup and toast. I made myself a PBJ. At 12:15 David and Heather picked me up. Off to Footy we go. Heather didn’t want to come to the game, so she went to the Royal Botanical Gardens instead.

The game was really fun! So many people told me that David was a crazy person at the footy, but I didn’t see that in him at all. Maybe he was on his best behavior with me there, or maybe this wasn’t a close game, but he was enjoyable to converse with and watch the game with.

I had a meat pie while at the game. That’s the more traditional footy food. I was given a packet of catsup to go with my pie. Now it may sound really silly to you, but I had so much trouble trying to figure out how to open the thing. I’ll see if I can get a picture for you, but you had to squeeze both ends of the packet and the catsup came out in the middle. So I was squeezing, and it squirted in the air and got all over everybody that I was sitting around. It made a good laugh for those around me. I was a bit embarrassed, but laughed at myself too.

Collingwood won the game 150 to 85. Yay! We left the game and met up with Heather. We drove around Melbourne for a while the stopped at Dockland for dinner. I chose an Italian restaurant because I was really hungry for some pizza. Jake, I haven’t had pizza since I have been here! WOW! Hee Hee.

I had pineapple and ham pizza with cheese and it cost $16.50. It was so expensive! I enjoyed talking to David and Heather and finding out all about their travels and telling them all about the religion department at my school. For dessert I had Gelato. Its basically really creamy sherbet ice cream. Its not ice cream and its not sherbet, its something in between. It was yummy and cold. I thought I was paying for myself. The ice cream cost $10. Its so crazy how much more expensive things are. The check came and I was about to put in my share of the cost, when I was blessed to have David and Heather pay for my meal.

We then strolled along the Yarra River and took pictures of the sights. On our way home we drove through Lygon street which is known as the Italian street. There were so many shops there.

I arrived home at 9:00. I decided to get ready for bed and do some writing. Tomorrow I preach at church. I can’t believe it! I know that God will give me the strength to preach.