27th February 2009

Today we visited the famous MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground) the stadium will hold 100,000 spectators. A behind the scenes tour showed us all of the stadium, we saw the Long Room which is modelled on the Long Room at Lords. We even saw the changing rooms and facilities. The highlight of the tour was when we were taken onto the actual hallowed turf.

After this we were able to visit National Sports Museum which had areas devoted to the Olympics, AFL (Australian Rules Football) – its still a mystery to me and of course cricket. There were special exhibits on Sir Donald Bradman and an exhibit about Shane Warne who gave a short talk about his life in cricket. He appeared to be only a yard or so in front of us, an excellent hologram.

We spent the rest of the day relaxing.