Excursion Day

A busy day without any cricket! Today was excursion day for the ACT girls however it was scheduled for the afternoon. With a forecast of 42°C, we began the day with breakfast at Mr Sunshine before continuing a little further down the road to the Ice Skating rink. The girls enjoyed zooming around on skates for an hour.

 

Returning to the cottage we had lunch before I took Ella into town meeting the team at the South Australian Museum. Meanwhile Grandad and Katy were back at the cottage busily packing their bags ready for the return trip back to Canberra.

Thankfully the drop off was smooth and the tram ride short so I managed to get back to the cottage in time to see off Grandad and Katy. A great opportunity for Katy to spend a few days with Grandad back in Canberra going to school, netball, little aths....

I then had an hour to relax so grabbed a book and laid down on the couch! Ella was busy with the SA team on a digital adventure accruing as many points as possible by completing challenges and finding hidden objects in the museum. From all accounts it sounded like they had fun.



After sleuthing at the museum, the team headed over to the Adelaide Oval. Here they toured the stadium learning about it's history. Ella was particularly interested in the bird that made history...

In a Sheffield Shield match at Adelaide in 1969 Inverarity was not yet off the mark when a Greg Chappell delivery completely changed direction in mid-air, suddenly nose-diving to flatten the stumps. Bewildered, Inverarity looked to the heavens and trudged off. The new batsman was almost at the crease when the umpire Colin Egar signalled dead ball. A swallow, now also dead and lying some yards behind the wicket, was revealed as the cause and Inverarity was recalled, going on to make 89.