It was an excellent experience in Melbourne, if Australia ever gets a big event like that I will definetely not be missing it. I hope mostly that we can get a Men’s Basketball World Championship one day, and I will definetely be travelling to attend that, but we are probably more likely to get a women’s world championship.

Well it is back into the slog at work, we are releasing a new logo at work on monday, so there is a few things which I need to make sure are good to go by Friday.

Photos will also be updated from Basketball games, closing ceremony and a number of other events that I saw.

Cheers

Was good to see lots of different events all happening at once, though some tended to drag on a lot, the men’s pole vault for the heptathlon there was always a long gap between drops, but any way it was a great day.

One of the things I was amazed at was the lighting setup that was obviously there for the ceremonies, there were about 700 intelligent lights, a mixture of spots and profiles.  I am really looking forward to the closing ceremony we worked out that we are in the bottom tier, hopefully our view isnt too obscured by the balcony above us.  We think we are some where near where the queen was sitting, at least on that side of the venue.  The PA system that they have is amazing, blows away the PA system at AAMI stadium (except when U2 eventually play there I am sure), didnt get photos of the PA I totally forgot, but it was awesome, the bass response that they were getting was far and above any football stadium around (maybe not as good as Stadium Australia, but I have never been there).

Well that is it for today, Wednesday we will be packing to move over to my Uncle and Aunties house for the remainder of our time here, it will be easier to get into the city from there and on Friday I will be heading to the docklands region for the men’s 50km walk, then on Saturday I’ll probably head to the Vic Markets and Sunday head into town again for the cycling road race and then of course the closing ceremony.  Looking forward to all of that, but then that means I have to go home and back to work, what a drag

Monday night was the last night of basketball for Bendigo, just about had a tear in the eye, not really. It was funny though how you had got to know the same volunteers and police officers each night. Unfortunately I still can’t get finals tickets for either night, so unless dad comes through with tickets, I will have to watch it from home, well my at my Uncle and Aunties actually.

I am glad to have gotten any basketball tickets at all, especially to have seen 3 games with Aussies involved – men twice and women once. Hopefully international basketball can come back to South Australia, I have found it to be quite enjoyable despite most of the games being an absolute hammering. Apart from the Australia games, I think the best game was left to the last night with Nigeria v Scotland, it was close all game although Nigeria ended up winning the game it looked like Scotland might have taken the game out, but they didnt. Nigeria was the crowd favourite, but Scotland had a number of noisy supporters which made for a great friendly atmosphere.

Well that is it for Monday.