Footy and Tubing

This weekend, we got the chance to go see a Gold Coast Suns AFL game (Australian football)! As the game started, it immediately became apparent to us that one, this game is basically a mixture of almost every other sport you could think of (football, soccer, ultimate frisbee..there's a little bit of quidditch in there too because there are three goal posts) and two, these men are extremely sexy. We each started to pick out our men: "I call 41! Ok you can have him if I can have 23." Every so often we would remember we are watching a football game and not a model shoot.

Claire, Kate, me and Cierra at the Metricom stadium
cheering on the Gold Coast Suns!

What was even more exciting, sadly, was that since McDonald's sponsors the team, if Gold Coast wins their first quarter, than everyone in the audience gets a free quarter pounder! They won their first quarter, and for a bunch of poor American's this was extremely fantastic news.

The atmosphere of the game was very different as well. At American football games there's always music pumping you up and cheerleaders and people getting rowdy. At the AFL game, they had live performers before the game and during half time, and they were singing...love ballads! What?! There also wasn't a national anthem played before the game started. Either way, it was a blast and I would love to go to another!

Claire and I tubing!

The next day, it was looking to be just another day on the gorgeous beach (poor me). But then, we got the opportunity to go on a boat in the ocean and go tubing! We went out to what is called "The spit" where a lot of surfers go, and there were people doing all kinds of water sports. We also found out that you can go camping on the island that we were near, so hopefully we could do that sometime! After a day of screaming and laughing, we finally went to maccas (McDonalds) and got our free quarter pounders and 30 cent ice cream cones! Literally never thought I'd say that sentence with so much enthusiasm...