Friday, March 27, 2009

Cricket...It's Not Just a Noisy Bug

Scanning one of the old posts, I noticed that pictures of Jason playing cricket were promised (amongst other things) and never delivered. Well, don't say I don't hold true to a promise.

Eventually.

I just like to keep you all guessing. Wondering what's up. Did you know that it's 11:15 at night here and my husband is lord knows how many miles away? And I'm trying desperately to tire myself out so that I might get a few hours sleep before one of the munchkins crawls in bed with me? Only so I can get us to baseball by 7:45 in the morning.

TMI? Oh well. Learn to deal. You're my therapists. Waaay cheaper than the real thing.

Do you feel sorry for me? Good. That's my goal.

But I digress.

Here's my husband playing cricket.



What's cricket you ask? Well...hell if I know.



Truthfully, Jason and I have tried to watch it on TV.



But we were never able to figure it all out.



It's dreadfully boring. And it has something to do with those yellow poles. And running back-and-forth between them.

Or something.

It consists of a lot of this...standing around.


And this...drinking.

Well, probably not with the professionals. But at Back-yard bar-b-ques, that's what it's all about. As a matter of fact, one of the Aussie men said to me...

"Angie, Americans eat everything in site. Australians drink everything in site".


I think that may be true. I also think they're trying desperately to convert us.

And I think these Aussie men challenged our American men to a cricket duel so that they might show them up.



Well...good on 'ya my Aussie friends, you picked the right game. Our guys didn't have a clue.

But they had a blast. For all 6 hours of this horribly long, seemingly never-ending game. No offense to cricket players around the world.

And here's what the pooh-bears did while the boys played with bats and balls.


Swimming and movies.

All in all, we had a great day. Even considering that it was well over 100 degrees outside. But what's a little heat and sweat to a true athlete?



Love to all,
A

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Happy Easter to all of you and congrats Angie - welcome to the secret sect!! Hey Jason - you wuss - cricket??? M.A.G.