I have several posts in my draft.. Need to post them at some point..
I haven't organized it well enough to publish..but, i thought if i dont post something now, i will never get back to blogging..so doing a quick update now.
Summer break is here and as usual having a crazy schedule. But, not as much as previous years. I signed them up only in the camps near my house to avoid crazy amount of driving. So far, so good.
Only one week is going to be hectic...
We didnt go anywhere for the july 4th long weekend, since we travelled to Australia during spring break, we have pretty much used up most of our vacation days too :)
Australia trip was awesome. We went there to watch 2 quarter finals of the cricket world cup and it was an unforgettable experience for the kids. The boys also got to meet the South African team thanks to my cousin and were awestruck. Seeing ABD upclose was something they will never forget i think :)
When we went to meet my cousin, he came with Hashim Amla and received us. Amla was so down to earth and my cousin had promised to make the boys meet ABD Faf Miller and Steyn as well as they are their favorites, but we got to meet the entire team and we even saw the Srilanka players in the hotel at arm's length distance. We didnt dare talk to them though due to the tight security :)
All the SA players were super friendly and very down to earth. Both Miller and Steyn spent solid 10 minutes talking to us about us and US :) They were quite appreciative of the fact that we went all the way to Aus from US to watch world cup :)
AB was pulling Aj's legs as he was wearing CSK cap. He said next time he meets him he should be wearing RCB cap :0) Aj quietly said No and thankfully AB didnt hear him. Next Miller said the same thing..he wanted Aj to wear KXIP cap. While taking pics with them, Faf pulled aj towards him as he is CSK :) And Miller and Steyn talked quite well to Ashu. Ashu was dumbstruck when AB walked in. He froze and forgot all the questions he wanted to ask AB :) It was quite funny.
We also went to Cairns and went on rainforest tour and it was mindblowing. I am not big into forests and stuff..i prefer beaches..but this was really an amazing experience. I was completely blown away by the depth of the forest and the different kinds of trees over there. It was like pandora in avatar :0) Only green all around....
The second day in Cairns we planned to go for the Great barrier reef tour which included scuba and snorkeling, but they cancelled it due to bad weather :( We were quite bummed, but we managed to get on a small plane and went around the reef. They took us quite low to get a good view of the reef. It was sooooo beautiful. We want to go there once again. We next went to Sydney and visited Opera house and few other places in sydney. Sydney is where we met the SA team and then we also watched our first QF between SA and SL. We also did a group jetboat ride and it was super fun :)
Then we went to Melbourne and watched the next QF between Ind and Bangladesh. Kids were super excited. The only thing they could't do is get up close to the players and get their autographs like how they did in sydney. We were just 4 rows behind the SA dugout in sydney and Aj got autograph from many SA players again when they walked in and out :) Miller even recognized him from the previous night and said hey i know you :)
In melbourne we didnt do a lot as we were exhausted the next day and we had just one day left and we couldnt' go to see the 12 apostles at the great ocean road. But we were really exhausted.
We went on our own by the local train to the outskirts and it was a relaxed day.
We went to a haze place. it was kinda lame for us but kids loved it :)
So that pretty much summarizes the australian trip. After the trip, aj keeps saying we should move to a cricket playing country :D
I haven't organized it well enough to publish..but, i thought if i dont post something now, i will never get back to blogging..so doing a quick update now.
Summer break is here and as usual having a crazy schedule. But, not as much as previous years. I signed them up only in the camps near my house to avoid crazy amount of driving. So far, so good.
Only one week is going to be hectic...
We didnt go anywhere for the july 4th long weekend, since we travelled to Australia during spring break, we have pretty much used up most of our vacation days too :)
Australia trip was awesome. We went there to watch 2 quarter finals of the cricket world cup and it was an unforgettable experience for the kids. The boys also got to meet the South African team thanks to my cousin and were awestruck. Seeing ABD upclose was something they will never forget i think :)
When we went to meet my cousin, he came with Hashim Amla and received us. Amla was so down to earth and my cousin had promised to make the boys meet ABD Faf Miller and Steyn as well as they are their favorites, but we got to meet the entire team and we even saw the Srilanka players in the hotel at arm's length distance. We didnt dare talk to them though due to the tight security :)
All the SA players were super friendly and very down to earth. Both Miller and Steyn spent solid 10 minutes talking to us about us and US :) They were quite appreciative of the fact that we went all the way to Aus from US to watch world cup :)
AB was pulling Aj's legs as he was wearing CSK cap. He said next time he meets him he should be wearing RCB cap :0) Aj quietly said No and thankfully AB didnt hear him. Next Miller said the same thing..he wanted Aj to wear KXIP cap. While taking pics with them, Faf pulled aj towards him as he is CSK :) And Miller and Steyn talked quite well to Ashu. Ashu was dumbstruck when AB walked in. He froze and forgot all the questions he wanted to ask AB :) It was quite funny.
We also went to Cairns and went on rainforest tour and it was mindblowing. I am not big into forests and stuff..i prefer beaches..but this was really an amazing experience. I was completely blown away by the depth of the forest and the different kinds of trees over there. It was like pandora in avatar :0) Only green all around....
The second day in Cairns we planned to go for the Great barrier reef tour which included scuba and snorkeling, but they cancelled it due to bad weather :( We were quite bummed, but we managed to get on a small plane and went around the reef. They took us quite low to get a good view of the reef. It was sooooo beautiful. We want to go there once again. We next went to Sydney and visited Opera house and few other places in sydney. Sydney is where we met the SA team and then we also watched our first QF between SA and SL. We also did a group jetboat ride and it was super fun :)
Then we went to Melbourne and watched the next QF between Ind and Bangladesh. Kids were super excited. The only thing they could't do is get up close to the players and get their autographs like how they did in sydney. We were just 4 rows behind the SA dugout in sydney and Aj got autograph from many SA players again when they walked in and out :) Miller even recognized him from the previous night and said hey i know you :)
In melbourne we didnt do a lot as we were exhausted the next day and we had just one day left and we couldnt' go to see the 12 apostles at the great ocean road. But we were really exhausted.
We went on our own by the local train to the outskirts and it was a relaxed day.
We went to a haze place. it was kinda lame for us but kids loved it :)
So that pretty much summarizes the australian trip. After the trip, aj keeps saying we should move to a cricket playing country :D
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