With Helen having scurried away to Berry for the weekend with all of her "playgroup mums" cronies, it was left to me to once again look after the kids for the weekend.
We all took Jess to hockey in the morning for her usual Saturday game to start with.
Then, with Josh having received four free tickets to go to the GWS Giants game, we along with Dad headed back to Sydney for the day. The Giants were playing Melbourne, who were having a tough old season, but had won two games during the year, including the first round match against the Giants after the Giants had led by 17 points at three-quarter time. The Giants had yet to win a game in 2013, though they had been all square with Geelong with a quarter to go, had very nearly beaten the Western Bulldogs in Canberra a couple of weeks earlier, and had scared the life out of Collingwood last weekend. Could this be their day?!
Josh of course had been before, but it was the girls' first AFL match, and they had a great time. I'm not sure if they expected that their father would get as... loud... as he did in his support during the day, but when you had some rowdy Melbourne supporters pushing their team on, someone had to stand up for the Giants and give a little bit back, and so that was me. In the end, the Giants prevailed, to the rousing cheers of the home crowd. Of course, all three kids have learned the words to the Giants victory song, and sang it long and loud with the rest of the crowd. It was great to see the gusto and passion that the players sang the song back in the change rooms as well. Great to see.
There is now a very big chance we will get family membership for next season, seeing as everyone enjoyed themselves so much.
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