An exhausting weekend

I have had by far one of the most tiring weekends since my arrival in Australia, packed full of activities and action. It all started on Friday after school when Scott and I decided to organise a get together with the Haberfield boys and go for a swim in the bay. We called up the guys and had everyone meet up at King George's park around the cove, which was about a 3km jog away from Haberfield. Although Robson park is much closer, we decided that King George park would be much greener and calmer. As soon as we all arrived at King George, we decided to have a swim first and then play some rugby later on. The cove wasn't too sold and the water was rather clean but Scott would't let me stay in longer that 10 minutes, this was because of the regular presence of bull sharks in and around Iron Cove. After our quick dive and swim, we made teams and played touch rugby, this would mean that no tackling was allowed and instead we would just tap each other. Nevertheless, it was extremely exhausting and my knees were completely bruised by the time we had shuffled the teams around. Eventually, i sprained my ankle and had trouble with even walking. I sat out the rest of the of the match and then we all went for a last and final dive before all walking back home in the dark. The next day i could feel every single muscle in my body, ranging from my legs all the way to my shoulders. I was exhausted. Scott and i spent the morning sleeping and playing cards on the veranda until we were told to dress up and get in the car because we were going to witness the world challenge NRL grudge match between the Eastern Sydney Roosters and the mighty Wigan Warriors from England. This was the descisive match of the NRL  world. It was the best in Australia against the best from England. However, a couple of minutes into the game i noticed that the English weren't as great at NRL as the Australians were. Eventually after a complete domination by the Roosters and a lack of resistance from the Warriors, the game ended in a large 36 to 14 edge on the match for the Roosters. After a great introduction game to the NRL, i could not wait to go to bed and have a good sleep. No sooner did i close my eyes and around came Sunday morning, with a big day ahead. Today was the day that we would finally get to admire Australia's native wildlife. We all got into Lorraine's blue Skoda, who was kind enough to drive us up to the Zoo, and soon arrived at the Sydney Zoological Park. We started off by visiting the nightlife exposition, seeing all the little rascals that come out at night in the wide open Australian desert, except now they were in small desert-emulating sections surrounded by glass. Here we saw a couple of different types of rats, some flying others sprinting across the vast sandy plains. We then continued to see the extremely popular platypus and of course the endangered Tasmanian Devil! We then went on to see humongous crocodiles, cute koala bears, fluttering penguins and of course Asian elephants. After a good day at the zoo, we grabbed a ferry across the harbour and proceeded to buy some indian food. Upon arriving home, Chris volunteered to drive Tim and me out to a relaxing beach that had a naturally sculpted basin on its side. All in all, it was a rather spectacular week-end.