Let September begin!!!

Aus Kick Kids

This is by far my favourite commercial here!

More ocean

(notice the FARM LAND that goes all the way up to the beautiful coastline)

There's a whale out there SOMEWHERE!!!

What a fast runner

(it must be the Bulldogs shirt)

I'm pretty awesome

Pretty Great Ocean Road

London Bridge

(yes, it fell down)

Altar Boyz!

We're going to see "Altar Boyz" tomorrow with Janice and David. YEAH!!!

Working hard

This is Nes and I working hard at our 3 day retreat up at Mt. Macedon. :)

Gooooooooooo Doggies!

Good luck against Adelaide! Let's go for a Round 1 repeat!

Happy Katrina Day.

To all the Red Crossers out there.

Finals are in the air!

This local baker is serving red, white and blue treats to support the Bulldogs! I love the western suburbs! :)

Round 22 coming up!

Round 22 this weekend is against the same team we saw in Round 1 - the Adelaide Crows. Why not revisit that very first game?! This was back in the good ol' days when all my colleagues laughed that we picked the Doggies and said they'd never even make it to September. HAHA! Silly coworkers.

Love, love, LOVE Brad Johnson.

Appropriate here, not there

This is our Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, welcoming home our Olympic athletes. I just love that this photo is totally socially appropriate here, but would spark a scandal in the US!

One more game

There's just one footy game left in the regular season (or, "home and away"). Then the madness begins... 4 weeks of nation stopping finals. I CAN'T WAIT!!!

Quote of the day

"You are craft fabric, NOT fashion fabric."
-salesman at fancy pants shop in the CBD

(as if our identity revolves around the type of fabric we need for our handmade quilt!!!)

Batman

We finally saw "The Dark Knight" like the rest of the world... but it mostly just made us miss Chicago... Lake, Lower Wacker, LaSalle, Chase Bank (haha), the Chicago River, the Wrigley Building, Daley Plaza, the halls where we waited to see the judge for our name change, etc. Sniff. We heart Chicago.

Doggies are back in action!!!

Good job Doggies. It's been a little bit of a rough streak over the last week after securing a top 3 spot going into finals... but Doggies got their form back last night! It was the last regular season home game. One more game (in Adelaide) next week then... let the finals begin!!!!

Western Bulldogs 3.3 10.6 19.8 23.13 (151)
Essendon 3.4 5.8 9.11 15.15 (105)

GOALS
Western Bulldogs: Hahn 6, Johnson 4, Akermanis 4, Minson 2, Welsh 2, Harbrow, Eagleton, Murphy, Cooney, Boyd
Essendon: Lloyd 4, Michael 2, Stanton 2, McVeigh, Lonergan, Monfries, Lovett-Murray, McPhee, Nash, Dyson

sick again.

argh.

Our fire brigade in action!

footy

we learned today that footy balls are like boomerangs and come right back! well... at least they do when you kick them straight into a tree and they bounce back your way.

Top 5 tunes in Australia

#1 Metro Station- Shake It
#2 Rihanna- Disturbia
#3 The Living End- White Noise
#4 Pink- So What
#5 Pussycat Dolls- When I Grow Up

Argh, I'm SOOOO over this music!

Our swimmers should stick to swimming!

(I may get thrown out of the country for saying such a thing!)

"Gangaroos"

There's no limit to Hamish & Andy!

Loyalty to whom?

It's strange to be living in another country during the Olympics. Who do we support? The United States? Australia? It's hard to follow the Americans too much because the only coverage of them seems to be when they are losing to Aussies. We're trying to support both teams, but where does our loyalty lie when both countries are in the same pool?!! It's so confusing! Such difficult things we face in life!

Silly Bulldogs

Despite Brad Johnson kicking 5 goals, our Bulldogs lost to the North Melbourne Kangaroos. Boo. Our boys are locked into the top 3 with only 3 rounds of play left before finals ("playoffs"), which means they are rotating out their older and injured players and letting some of the young VFL guys play. At least... that's what we're telling ourselves.

:(

Happy 4 years!

Today is my 4 year Red Cross Anniversary! Woohoo!!!

83rd & Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL

What I wouldn't give for an apple fritter from DAT right now!

Cough cough

It's no fun being sick in another country.

Hurry home Megan!

It's Dr. Mario time!

8 minutes with Rove and Elmo

Trying to make sense of footy finals...

Week 1
Qualifying Finals:
QF1: 1 (home ground) v 4
QF2: 2 (home ground) v 3
Elimination Finals:
EF1: 5 (home ground) v 8
EF2: 6 (home ground) v 7
---------
Week 2
Semi Finals (2nd chances for loosing top 4 teams)
SF1: loser of QF1 (home ground) v winner EF1
SF2: loser of QF2 (home ground) v winner EF2
---------
Week 3
Preliminary Finals (the crossover)
PF1: winner QF1 (home ground) v winner SF2
PF2: winner QF2 (home ground) v winner SF1
---------
Week 4
Grand Final at the MCG
winner PF1 v winner PF2

I miss the Northern Territory!

Go Doggies!

Mutual obsession... the Bulldogs. We ran into Trevor and Gregory at the game in Darwin.

Go Doggies!

They won again... maintaining their hold on the second spot on the ladder!

Back in town

We're back from our Great Ocean Road/ Great Quilting Weekend adventure. We had an amazing time, and even got to see the whales in Warrnambool! Mama and baby seem quite happy.

There's also baby sheep EVERYWHERE! It's seems quite strange that the sheep are being born in the autumn/winter. I guess they still think they live in the Northern Hemisphere. Crazy Europeans.

Invade New Zealand!