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Here's our guys... sliding to keep the ball from the boundary (if the ball reaches the rope, it's automatically 4 points).

Harbhajan Singh

This here is an interesting fella. Harbhajan Singh has been in the centre of controversy for the past month or so after using a racist term against one of the Australian players. He has a hot temper and the Australian fans hate him dearly. He appealed the ruling against him which lifted the 3 match ban against him... thus allowing him to play in Adelaide. What this picture DOESN'T show is that after the game we were out in the parking lot (i.e.- parked on the grass by the river outside the Oval) and we were flipping through our Lonely Planet to figure out where to eat. As we started to drive away we spotted Harbhajan and a few of his teammates walking to their hotel. Keep in mind... in India these guys are SUPERSTARS! They are a team of 11 people who represent a country of over a billion people. They can't walk anywhere without being mobbed, and their team hotel is guarded like a fortress. But in Adelaide, they casually walked toward their hotel. Megan seized the opportunity, hopped out of the car, and asked for an autograph. Unfortunately we couldn't find a pen for the life of us (or something that wasn't uber-pro-Australia to sign). So here these superstars stood... waiting for a couple of Aussie fans in green shirts to dig through their piece of crap car for a pen and paper!!!! What a weird experience. He signed our program. Or maybe he just doodled in it. It's really hard to know. Who cares... we saw Harbhajan Singh, R.P. Singh, and Ishant Sharma (the 19 year old Indian phenom)!!!!

GAME TIME!

We got our tickets... we had our green shirts... and we were sporting our Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi hats. The weather was perfect and we were so excited to see more cricket. Unlike our first game where over 65,000 people packed into the Melbourne Cricket Grounds, only 16,000 or so were in the Adelaide Oval. It was a much more mellow, civilised cricket crowd. As Megan noted, "The streakers in Adelaide keep their clothes on and give up pretty easily when the cops chase them!" What a great day it was. For those of you who follow cricket (hahaha) Australia had to chase 526 runs, which has rarely been done. Lucky for us... we saw it happen. :)

Friendly little neighbours

These gorgeous parrots lived in the trees outside our cabin in Murray Bridge, South Australia (about an hour from Adelaide). They were much prettier in the evening than at 5 or 6 am when they woke up... but I guess we can't be too picky. You don't see these fellas flying around all over the States!

Time to get our game faces on

We carefully prepared our homemade Aussie pride hats for day 4 of the match vs. India in Adelaide. We are becoming serious cricket fans... much to the dismay of many Australians who try to convince us that cricket is "dumb" and "boring." :(

Surfing in a park

Yeah, I'm talented.

Best playground ever!

This crazy little slide-train thing was at a playground in Keith, South Australia. I don't really know how we stumbled upon it... but I'm glad we did!!!