3 Months on - Soccer, Aussie Rules and Rugby League

Keeping up with the sporting life, April was a sweaty month.

At the gigantic MCG, we saw our local Aussie rules team, Richmond Tiger, being badly beaten by local rivals, Carlton Blue, but the experience was fantastic, surrounded by 86,970 people for Rob's birthday. At least we now understand the rules and scoring. Unfortunately, they've only just won their first match of the season, we're considering moving to Collingwood.

Having slightly forgotten our 6 months anniversary (oups!), we enjoyed a quiet afternoon at the Melbourne International Flowers and Garden Show where colourful creations from all over Australia were exposed. Getting up at 6.30am on Sunday accompanying Rob to the annual fun run, I watched the short race while he was running the 14km one. Over 30,000 people participating to the event, I was mostly amazed by the parents running while pushing their double buggy, with the kids in it, and some of the younger runners from athletics clubs. A 12 yrs old or so girl, almost sprinting, was in the top 20, showing off a six-packs to make us all jealous. Yes, a 12 yrs old girl with a six-packs! I won't be surprised to see her at the next Olympics. And on that note, we've registered to do another run at the end of June - yes, you're reading correctly: WE. I will be running too! But only the very easy 5km one. Melbourne Run.

The following weekend, while Suzie was around for a couple days, Rob got his first beach volley lesson on South Melbourne beach. I can already tell that he's a natural digger.

Last weekend we went to the Olympic Park to watch our first rugby league game, between the Melbourne Storms and Auckland Warriors. Wearing a plastic bag as rain coat, seating between few Maoris, we shouted and clapped at the purple Storm man, circling the arena with fireworks for each try successfully converted.

Other activities this month, include a visit to the zoo and few new bars. It's getting a bit cool here, I wore a jumper for the first time yesterday.

Looking forward to see Emily and Tom in a couple of weeks - we've got few places to show off for.