On Saturday mid morning we caught out flight to Sydney, picked up a hire car and then did some shopping in Warringal Mall. After that we headed off to our hotel room and walked to Brookvale Oval for the Manly game. We got to the game quite early as Emma & Katy wanted to sit in their usual position. It was my first venture to Brookvale & its such a great venue as spectator to watch games. We waited after the game to see Belly (Steve Bell) & Matt Orford. They were pleased to see Katy & Emma. Whilst talking to Belly he gave Katy his phone so that we could have a look at pictures of his new daughter. She looked adorable.
Sunday morning we had some time to kill, so we headed off to Manly beaches. The first one we went to was North Curl Curl Beach and it was rough. We then headed around to Manly and had some breakfast which consisted of corn fritters, omelets, pancakes & ice-cream and checked out the calmer waters. We arrived at Leichhardt Oval about 2.00 (about 1/2 hour to spare) before the game started. I was very excited about this game as I was going to watch Scotty Prince play. He played pretty well and Melbourne Storm didn't play very well. Tigers won 30-28 (flatters the Storm a bit). After the game had finished Katy said, "I guess we'd better go find some Tigers players". She was so right as she knew I wanted to head around and talk to them. Whilst we were waiting, Katy & Emma found a group of Sydney based Storm supporters and we were able to catch up with them. Quite a few of the Storm players came out. They did not look too particularly happy with themselves. Cam (Cameron Smith), Kiddy (David Kidwell) & Matt Geyer stopped for a quick few words.
Every now and then I would disappear from the group in search of Tigers' players. I eventually spotted Scotty & got Emma's attention to come over and have my photo. I had my photo but it makes him look really tall as he's standing on the footpath and I'm down at gutter level. Emma then decided that she wanted a photo with Scotty too, which surprised me a bit as
she isn't overly fussed about him as a player and/or person. Katy headed to get the car while Emma & I waited for Benji Marshall to come out. Also had my photo with Benji as well, although the photo isn't too good. Katy, Emma & I then headed off to the airport, doing a couple of circuits of the whole of Sydney airport in search of the five dozen krispy kreme donuts that we brought back to Melbourne.
2 comments:
Hi Anna,
It was so the Tigers v. Storm game I went up for, being a Storm Supporter and all. I have no idea what-so-ever where you got the idea that it was all-about Manly. It's not as if I'd been referring to the trip as the "Manly Weekend" for the past 5 months...
You forgot to mention that you got your photo taken with another Tiger's player -- What was his name?
Great Blog by the way :)
Katy
Hi Anna
You are so right that I haven't taken much interest in Scotty Prince before. But I have a ting appreciation for him now. Tiny enough to have my photo taken with him.
Em :)
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