Sunday 25 February - Boston

LIBE SHOE COUNT – 12

Yep, today Libe hit the magical dozen mark. If Shane Warne gets to hold the ball to the crowd for celebrating 700 test wickets, surely Libe gets to hold a shoe up in the store and salute the other women shoppers?

Her good friend An was over from London for the weekend. Thus, the girls did what they enjoy doing best – shopped. Quite a comparison from what we’ve done this weekend with the boys up here – drank and talked absolute dribble.

A pair of Jimmy Choos too – the brand made famous by Carrie Bradshaw in numerous episodes. Just need a pair of brown shoes, some walking ones, and a good flat pair and the set is complete.

In the meantime, I need a new pair of Coles designer-label thongs.

Although I’d seen a fair bit of Boston (and so had Pete), both of us accompanied the NY4 on their Trolley Tour of Boston. Baz did his usual tour routine and started to nod off. Pete left early due to self-inflicted ‘tiredness’.

The highlight of the day might be Luke’s new “gun show” t-shirt. Here’s hoping Barrel wears it to many social functions as I’m still giggling about it now.

Caught up with a fair bit of footy action during the night. Channel 7’s first crack at footy coverage in the new age didn’t really impress – hate to say it, but I don’t think that Bruce can provide the same entertainment value that the guys from 9 have in the last 5 years.

On the other hand, Michael Voss was very promising during the Cats and Tigers game. Loved the way he picked up centre bounce issues, and particularly how good we were on the day at spreading from the contest, something we probably haven’t been great in. Joel Corey is getting to be a gun at this (happy to go on record he and Scarlett are our two best players). Good solid start to the year for the Cats, but nothing more than that – the Tigers were ridiculously easy to play against, particularly in our attacking half. We’ve got a massive road ahead of us.