Thursday, December 30, 2010

Dingley Village, Victoria

Right now I'm at Gemma's house preparing for New Year's Eve festivities.  It will be a really fun night.  There are costumes involved and a movie to be seen.  We are going to see Rocky Horror Picture Show and then go to a party.  I'm going as Riff Raff because as Gemma said I "have the hair for it."  It's quite a nice New Year's Eve here as well.  It's sunny and the temperature is around 95 degrees.  Just thought I'd rub that one in a bit. 
One thing I really liked about Melbourne was the city gardens.  There are about half a dozen gardens in Melbourne.  They are all pretty big, the biggest being the Royal Botanical Gardens.  All have a lot of green space to sit back and relax and enjoy.  It's nice having a place you can go to escape the city within the city itself.
Every four years during the Winter Olympics I really get into curling.  I don't really know what it is about curling that fascinates me, but the fascination sits inside me and gestates for four years before showing itself.  Well, I think I have found a summer equivalent to my curling fascination in cricket.  Cricket is a simple game with seemingly complicated rules.  It could just be that a leg of the Ashes Test, a match between Australia and England, was in Melbourne while I was there and the whole city was in a frenzy.  Or it could be that cricket strikes the same nerve as curling does.  I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

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