When aussies say "Hockey"...there's no ice!

Meg and I got the opportunity to head down to watch some of the Commonwealth games here in Melbourne. It's been such a hyped up event, we figured we'd see what all the fuss was about. It also gave me a chance to see some Canadians in action as we went to watch Australia and Canada play in the field hockey game. It was pretty fun, but the atmosphere was probably the coolest part of all, with all these Canadians, and South Africans and English, and Scots and Pakistanis...very fun. I loved seeing all the red and white there. It was too bad that Australia dominated the game and beat Canada 5-1. I might add a side note here and say that the one goal Canad scored was it's first of the whole tournament...that's alright. Another side note, Australia currently leads the medal tally with 85 medals, including 32 Gold....Second place is England with 41 Medals in total...so, its a bit one sided here. But I got the chance to go after the game and say "Hi" to a couple of the players...One from Vancouver, and the other from Edmonton...it's always good to say Hi to the home boys...I think they both went to UBC in Victoria, too. Did I mention that John Howard, the Australian Prime Minister was also in attendance? I went over and said Hi to him too...giving him my views on inter-departmental politics, and my thoughts on the Kyoto Accord, privitisation of health centres and international relations with under-developed countries...Just kidding! We actually just discussed the hockey...haha