He's Loving His Footie!!!

First off, Happy belated Canada Day! We celebrated down under with an Aussie hosted BBQ for the exchange teachers and families on Sunday. Unfortunately, Mike has gone off to 'Country Week' (described below) and in the rush he failed to transfer the photos for the blog over to me. So stay tuned for future postings of the event.

I sit here posting this blog in a severe thunderstorm. We have had record amounts of rain over the past week or so. In addition, the tides are at their extremes around now - the sun and moon are all set up for the maximum tides (I'm learning lots of stuff down here!!!) So the volume of rain, high winds and high tides are making for some wet roads, downed trees, power outages and rivers breaking their banks. But the locals are pleased to have the rain to fill the reservoirs. And as we mentioned previously, almost every rain is accompanied by a rainbow since the clouds blow over so quickly. Another one showed up on Friday - this is the view from out our front door.

As mentioned, Mike is off to Perth for the week with the girls basketball team (and all the other school teams) for Country Week. This is a week where all the 'country' schools come together in Perth to compete. Since they are so physically dispersed, setting up games with other schools is difficult. This week allows them all to get together for some competition which would otherwise not be possible. Teams come from the country schools all over Western Australia (which is more than twice the square kilometres than Ontario). Again, stay posted for photos on his return.

As for Saturday this past weekend, Mike AGAIN was off to the footie (with Patrick this time). He is becoming an avid fan and very much a good luck charm for the Dockers. They won again - this time by a huge score (their 2nd largest spread ever) over Carlton. Mike has used his birthday monies to purchase not only the much needed 'sunnies', but also a Fremantle Dockers footie shirt as seen here!

Again for those who like the action shots, here is a selection of shots from the game. I'm starting to think that Aussie Football should be sponsored by an underarm deodorant company - check out the number of armpits in the shots :-) !