ANZAC DAY

Started the morning with a lovely McDonald's breakfast. I went for the Bacon and Egg roll and a Caramel Frappe, which would have to now be in my top 10 drinks of all time (actually I might update this in my next blog). The lines were mental and it took about half an hour for our drinks to come. When they did come they'd stuffed up my order and given me a small frappe instead of the tall. Understandably, I was livid. I wasn't going to let this event bring me down though.

We moved onto Lilydale Lake after this and let Isaac have a run around. We fed ducks, played on the playground and had a run around. Here's some pics.








After we finished here it was back home for a nap and chill out. Later we went to Eastland, which only opened at 1pm in honour of the Diggers. We ate, shopped and grabbed a few small things.

When we got home I watched the end of the footy, read the paper and pottered.

Had a succulent roast for dinner, then watched "The Nativity Story". Here's my IMDB.com review.

"The Nativity Story" is, surprisingly, the story of the birth of Jesus. Normally when you think a Christian film, you think bad acting, cheap sets and average directing. This was refreshingly different. The cast did well with what they had, except maybe the Three Wise Men, generally the sets were good and the directing was solid. The main thing separating this and the many previous versions of this classic story was that the cast was generally Middle Eastern (except the Kiwi playing Mary) and the movie had a much more authentic feel about it.

It was obviously not as ground breaking as "The Passion Of The Christ", but this movie did cast a new light on several of the events surrounding Jesus' birth and therefore gave a new perspective eg the engagement of Joseph and Mary and the turmoil the pregnancy would have caused, the revelations given and most of all to me, the awesomeness of Jesus coming to earth in the form of a baby.

Not a Hollywood blockbuster, but not too bad at all.

After this wifey hit the hay and I watched the last 3 quarters of the Cats v Freo game. When I turned on amazingly the Dockers were in front. Just earlier that day I'd thought that this would be a classic game for Freo to win. No-one gave them a chance, plus Geelong had been pumped up in the media here all week about how players would be taking pay cuts because the team was so awesome and they'd probably win the next 5 premierships. The Dockers got out to a really big lead on the back of some great defensive work, the play of Pav and Bell and the fact that Geelong were stinking it up. Some how Geelong clawed their way back and ended up getting the win. Amazing team, I can't see anyone else who'll trouble them except maybe Hawthorn. That will be 1 footy game I get to this year.