Loveshack!

Aidan and I took another excursion to just spend the day together on the beach. We started off heading toward Brighton Beach where I had heard about these little colored beach houses. He had never heard of them, so we meandered our way to Brighton and parked and then walked along the beach trying to locate the shacks. No luck, but it was a beautiful view of the bay.



So as we headed back to the car, I called my friend Ben who lived in Brighton and asked for some directions and just as we wound our way back down the road, we could see them. We found parking and walked down to them and just sat and watched the waves and talked. It was such a gray day that the colors of the houses really popped against the sand and the gray sky. This isn't my best pic (above), but it covers the most area so you can see how many of them there were. Just lovely! The pic below is a great desktop shot, in my humble opinion.



Aidan and me - pretty close up. EEK!

Footy at the MCG

Melbournians love their sports and coming ahead of all others is Aussie Rules Football aka footy! The Melbourne Cricket Ground doubles as the footy field in the cricket off-season. And the MCG lights can be seen all over the city. So here I was in my last week of being a Melbs local. I really badly wanted to go see the MCG and the sport for myself. I bought two tickets and dragged Aidan out with me on a rainy day. We had awesome seats and the fans around us were die-hards! We learned cheers, yelled a lot, laughed a lot and really had an enjoyable time. Funny enough, Aidan had never been to a game at the MCG either, so I'm glad we had that memory.


Stadium View - look at the multiple stands!


We walked down 10 rows to get this pic during half time. It was cool and rainy and a guy broke his leg playing that day. The guys only play in these little short-shorts and a sleeveless jersey! Not much protection. They get knocked down and get up again - a true showing of 'suck it up' on the field!


As we left, I turned to take a quick photo. This is obviously just a partial view, but it's the closest to the MCG I had been to that point - so you can see up close just how massive it is!