Day 10, The hallowed ground........
Today's blog is brought to you by our eldest child Krystian - who has spent the day in his element doing all things cricket!
The day started of with all of us (some of us more miserable than others as bella didnt get enough sleep ) we toddled off in the rain into Adelaide city to a little market located on Flinders st in a biggish garage with 10-12 little pop up stalls. What we thought we would take only 10 minutes..... ended up taking 55 minutes mainly because loz and bella were looking at earings and rings and ended up buying and pair of cool earings for school. Wog ( my dad ) ended up buying some charcoal grilled skewers and bella bought some fairy-floss, but i (krystian) ended up buying a really tasty cheese and sausage gozleme wich was mouth wateringly delicious that ended our first of 3 adventures for the day.
Our second adventure and our best adventure for the day was a GUIDED TOUR AROUND ADELAIDE OVAL! it went for around about 1h 45m and was the best 1h 45m of my life! The tour started of in the Bradman museum and showed a little bit of the history of the adelaide oval and also has a 3d printing of the newly redeveloped oval. One fact that we were told was that the 3d printing took longer to put together than the actual stadium itself.
After that brief video, the group headed up to the cricket media room. What an amazing view! it can hold 120 cricket media personnel at any given time.
We then went up to the top of the seating area in the riverbank stand. It is the same height as the back seats of the MCG. After that we went to the Audi club area where businesses buy tickets and u have a bar and personalised seat to your company for the season. The highlight, for me, was going into the 110+ yr old score board where we got to see how it all works. The most modern electrical thing in the scoreboard is lights to simply highlight which bowler is up and which batter is on strike. This 'technology was installed back in the early 1920s. The kids on tour got to operate it and have some fun.
Walking around the back, to view the old stadium we got to visit another museum of cricket memorabilia.
After we headed of to the away cricket club rooms; we also got to see where all the players have meal breaks for test matches and we saw all the players on the honours wall.
The best part walking out of the terrace and sitting on the players bench. Ii picture myself playing that ground in years to come. Its my dream to play on such a special ground.
Finishing off the day, we headed to Harbour town for lunch and a stroll before the city of Adelaide's shopping endeavours die when ALL shops shut at 5pm (including Coles and Woolworths)!
Time for a swim and an early night. We are all knackered.
The day started of with all of us (some of us more miserable than others as bella didnt get enough sleep ) we toddled off in the rain into Adelaide city to a little market located on Flinders st in a biggish garage with 10-12 little pop up stalls. What we thought we would take only 10 minutes..... ended up taking 55 minutes mainly because loz and bella were looking at earings and rings and ended up buying and pair of cool earings for school. Wog ( my dad ) ended up buying some charcoal grilled skewers and bella bought some fairy-floss, but i (krystian) ended up buying a really tasty cheese and sausage gozleme wich was mouth wateringly delicious that ended our first of 3 adventures for the day.
Our second adventure and our best adventure for the day was a GUIDED TOUR AROUND ADELAIDE OVAL! it went for around about 1h 45m and was the best 1h 45m of my life! The tour started of in the Bradman museum and showed a little bit of the history of the adelaide oval and also has a 3d printing of the newly redeveloped oval. One fact that we were told was that the 3d printing took longer to put together than the actual stadium itself.
After that brief video, the group headed up to the cricket media room. What an amazing view! it can hold 120 cricket media personnel at any given time.
We then went up to the top of the seating area in the riverbank stand. It is the same height as the back seats of the MCG. After that we went to the Audi club area where businesses buy tickets and u have a bar and personalised seat to your company for the season. The highlight, for me, was going into the 110+ yr old score board where we got to see how it all works. The most modern electrical thing in the scoreboard is lights to simply highlight which bowler is up and which batter is on strike. This 'technology was installed back in the early 1920s. The kids on tour got to operate it and have some fun.
Walking around the back, to view the old stadium we got to visit another museum of cricket memorabilia.
After we headed of to the away cricket club rooms; we also got to see where all the players have meal breaks for test matches and we saw all the players on the honours wall.
The best part walking out of the terrace and sitting on the players bench. Ii picture myself playing that ground in years to come. Its my dream to play on such a special ground.
Finishing off the day, we headed to Harbour town for lunch and a stroll before the city of Adelaide's shopping endeavours die when ALL shops shut at 5pm (including Coles and Woolworths)!
Time for a swim and an early night. We are all knackered.
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