Day 52: Grants get sporty

First of all, Happy St Patrick's Day! And Happy Birthday to Pat - hope it was a great day for you!

Today was an active day with us heading off first to the Australian Institute of Sport, where we signed up for a 90 minute tour of the place. The first 45 minutes was spent in their Sportex facility, which is set up to let you try out a number of different sports. There is also a lot of memorabilia to see, such as the medals won at various Olympics by various athletes, etc. We had quite a bit of fun here, as you can see from the pics below.

A bit of healthy competition

Sore losers

One of several impressive statues dotted around the place.

Two of the AIS basketballers took us on a tour of the facilities, including the new $20million pool that absolutely no-one other than the swimmers are allowed to use. It has a lot of state-of-the-art equipment and is top secret. The Americans asked to come and look at it, but were turned down. We got to see it through the window.

After lunch we pressed on to the Zone 3 Laser games place. Callum and Andrew were absolutely ecstatic, while Duncan and I were a bit skeptical about the supposed wonders of laser games.

Boy, was it FUN! The first round was parents against kids. We discovered that our children are really quite merciless, and Callum turned out to be the ace of the game, scoring the most points. (Will get him later...) It was so cool, that we just had to have another round. This time we played 'every man for himself': shoot whoever comes your way. It was hysterical. We worked up quite a sweat and Callum was the champ yet again. I came in a close second. Seems I have some lethal tendencies after all.

Apparently 15 minutes playing a laser game is equivalent to half an hour in the gym - so we effectively got an hour's gym workout today. Callum and Andrew went in for one more round, before we departed, soaking and thirsty, heading for home.

Today was AWESOME!