After having got a bit carried away with the post about last Saturday, I realised that I haven’t actually written anything about the ‘real’ reason we went to the Sydney last weekend. Officially, we’d gone to Sydney to see the Tigers v Storm game on the Sunday afternoon. Yeah right…
Sunday morning we spent hanging around Manly. First stop was North Curl Curl beach to take some photos. We hadn’t actually considered going for a swim which was fortunate because the beach was closed. The surf was quite rough and we almost got caught a few times as a freak wave or two raced higher up the sand then expected.
We then drove the short distance around the coast to Manly for breakfast of pancakes, corn fritters, omelettes and ice creams. After a quick stop at Manly Beach, to take in the view of much calmer waters, we wandered along the Manly Corso to the ferry terminal at Manly Harbour and back. Manly is really nice place and even though I’ve been to Brookvale quite a few times now, it’s been a while since I’ve ventured into Manly itself. Well worth a visit.
With no trouble at all and we made it to Leichhardt Oval with a lazy half-hour before the game started. A search for the usual group of local and not-so-local Storm fans proved fruitless and we took up position at the north east corner of the ground on the wall. We were three lone Storm supporters in a sea of yellow and black. Got to hand it to those Tigers supporters - They certainly look the part. 
Now, I’m going to skip right on over the game except to say that it was one of the most frustrating games I’ve ever had the displeasure of watching. Seriously, what is it about Melbourne Storm and their record at Leichhardt Oval? This was the third time I’ve seen them play there (1999,2001 & 2006) and sure as heck nothings changed.
After the game Anna wanted photos with some of the Tigers players so we headed around the back to do and who do we find there? - The other Storm supporters we’d been looking for. Heather, Luke, Damien, Rose and Lord Reynoldson. It’s always good to catch up with other supporters at the first games of the season. Usually it’s good to see the players too but this day they were understandably down-in-the-dumps. That didn’t stop Captain Matty Geyer or David Kidwell saying a quick ‘hello’ or Cameron Smith stopping by for a brief chat. (English language, why do you fail me so?).
Anna and Emma wandered off at one stage to find, as it turned out, Scotty Prince. I had a feeling something wasn’t quite right and by the time once they got back I found out I was correct. Emma has been led astray. She’d had her photo taken with Scotty Prince! And she was all so excited about it! Oh, the disappointment… the shame… ;) At least she didn’t get her photo taken with Benji (aka: Lassie, Dodgy Boy).
On the way back to the airport we travelled through the new cross-city tunnel. I don’t know much about it except that a lot of Sydney-siders object to either the tunnel itself or the $3.50 toll to use it. As a result the tolls have been reduced to ½ price. I’m not sure how long for but I’m not convinced even that is enticing people to use it. For about 2-3 minutes ours was the ONLY car in the tunnel. There was no car in front and no car behind. Not a one of them could be seen. It was kind of unnerving. Eventually we caught a glimpse of another car and before we knew it we’d resurfaced having joined the Eastern Distributor.
After filling up with petrol, completing two circuits of the airport perimeter road and a stop at Krispy Kremes to purchase five dozen and two doughnuts, we were on our way back to Melbourne.
Cool weekend… Thanks Emma and Anna.
5 comments:
Thanks for being chauffeur Katy. Was lots of fun and relaxing and the games and players were great too. Especially Scotty & Belly!! Bit of a concern with Emma and that Dodgy Eyes boy, hey :)
5 Dozen and 2 doughnuts? Did you buy 2 to eat while you were there?
Emma & I bought a doughnut each to savour our hunger craves.
For your future reference Katy, we didn't end up with any toll charges for the cross-city tunnel.
Thanks Anna and Katy for a great weekend. A Storm win would have made it a little better. But then what could top seeing Steven Bell and Matt Orfords face when they saw us at their game.
Bring on Round 11.
I'd like to say, with all honesty, that out of the 5 dozen and 2 doughnuts purchased, I ate 1.3 --That's it. However, I personally bought two dozen home. I wonder where the other 22.7 went ;) I guess I'm saving myself up for when the store opens in Fountain Gate.
Anna - Poor Dodgy Eyes. He's not happy with the nickname... He told me so when I called him the other day ;)
Em - Their faces were priceless, that's for sure :) It's sounding more and more like we won't get to see either of them play in Round 11, even though we are travelling up for the game. We may just have to travel to Sydney on Wednesday 24 May to see them play. Go Queensland, hey?
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