Saturday 5th January 2008

Whenever we walk home from town, we always pass a certain shop. We've been in a couple of times this week, we went in when Emma was here too, but have never bought anything there... until today. Our alarm woke us up at just after 9am and we had showers and some breakfast before walking into the centre for our 10.30am appointment at Primitive... the tattoo parlour.

Tim, our tattoo artist was superb. He's a really nice guy from Melbourne, but has lived in Perth for about 20 years. He's seen pretty much all of Australia and wants to travel the world next year, so we had loads to talk about. I went first and my tattoo took just under an hour. After having one in Miami Ink in April, I knew what to expect - but Nikki hasn't had one done in 10 years, so at first she was a little nervous. As soon as he'd started, she was fine and didn't moan once - plus hers only took about 45 minutes.

When we left Primitive, we went into the centre and sat in the shade, where we ate some sarnies, before walking back to the hostel so that I could change my top. This afternoon we were heading over to Scarborough Beach to watch the XXXX Gold Tri-Nations Cricket, which was being shown live on TV - so I wanted to put my new Bristol City shirt on... just in case. We got to Scarborough Beach and the cricket had already started. It's a three team tournament with Australia, New Zealand and England. Even though we were late, we got great seats and were just in time to watch the big one... Australia vs England.

The beach cricket was fab and we hammered the Aussies. They finished on 126, but we passed that with about 3 overs to go, and finally finished on 157. We got to see loads of old favourites, including Graham Gooch, Phil Defreitas, Graeme Hick, Adam Holliaoke and Angus Fraser for England and Allan Border, Dennis Lillee, Stuart Law, Darren Lehmann and Mark Waugh for the Aussies. We were sat right next to the players entrance, and sure enough I got on TV as they were walking out. I'm not sure if it's shown at home... but Channel 10 on Aussie TV still counts!

After the excitement of watching the English beat the Aussies, we hung about on the grass next to the beach - it was far too windy on the sand. Pretty soon we were hungry, so we went and got a pizza from the shop where we got one on Christmas Eve... once again, it was LUSH! Once we were finished it was getting pretty late, so we caught the bus back to the city. I don't remember the journey, because I fell asleep - which was very embarrassing, because when I woke I discovered I'd dribbled all over myself!

YES! We were there when we beat the Aussies... at cricket!