Woops, I forgot to watch the Olympic torch relay as it passed by the end of the street! Earlier in the week we’d seen that the route ran along Bridge road, we just go busy and forgot at the time to walk up to the end and see it! Sometime around four I looked out the window and pondered the helicopters above the MCG, only then did the light-bulb come on — oh yeah, torch at footy half-time… turns out that the choppers will have had a spectacular view of one of the biggest punch-ups in the football season this year!
The evening came around and we bundled ourselves over to the Rivoli to see a movie — forgetting that in cold weather on a Saturday night, so would everyone else in Melbourne! Next time I must remember to book the tickets online before we go and save the twenty minutes in a crawling conga-line around the foyer…. I saw he funniest film I’ve seen in a long time, even if it was only the funniest film I’ve seen since the I saw a film! Les Triplettes de Belleville, French language animation, but almost silent — the digs at the Americans had us reduced to tears, the Tour de France coverage captured the event almost perfectly.
