Back to reality

Late last night I put Rissie on her red eye flight to Sydney.  As she put it, the whole trip is a red eye so it really doesn't matter when it starts.  I'm going to miss having her around.  Obviously it's been great having her here because she's my sister and we enjoy hanging out.  But it's also been great having an extra pair of hands and eyes throughout the day.  It's been nice to be able to dash off a couple of errands while the boys were napping.  It was also wonderful to step outside our usual routine and see Perth through fresh eyes again.  Like netball, for example.

Not far from where we live there is a huge series of courts where hundreds of girls, with coaches and parents in tow, show up on Saturdays for netball tournaments.  Netball is a British sport, popular in Commonwealth nations, and is primarily a women's sport.  Its flow reminds me of basketball, with the most visibly obvious difference (to me) being the lack of backboards above the nets.

We took the boys out one Saturday to get a closer look at the game and though we couldn't follow everything that we going on, it was pretty entertaining.