Football and hospitals

I should say, for my American flisters, that when I say football - here in Queensland we mean Rugby League. We spent Friday and Saturday at a big football carnival. There were huge numbers of children there from all over the place - 56 teams this year. Apparently it's the biggest football carnival for kids in Australia. Our team did very well though they didn't make the finals. They won 5 games and drew 1 game and so did the team from our pool who made it to the finals. Since the other team drew with us and were the first to score, they went through & ours didn't.

Still all the kids got to be honour guard at the big NRL match that night and some from each team were to run in a relay at half time. While they were running I wa cheering, but not jumping up and down or anything - and suddenly I was hit with what felt like an explosion in my skull. ( Read more... )