Going To The Footy On Saturday!
Posted: 20 Jun 2017, 08:16
We're going to the footy on Saturday...In Melbourne at the MCG, the holy mecca for Australian Rules football!
One of our son's best friends Bill is a multi millionaire property developer and he has a corporate box at the MCG. Costs squillions to lease one of those but Bill uses it to entertain people important to his business, people who can smooth the way of his huge development projects, politicians and such.
Chris who was having his weekly talk to Bill mentioned that "Dad has never been to a football game at the MCG" and Bill immediately said, well bring him to my box, I'll even put on catering!! Get them to bring other family members, I'll get you 10 tickets. Now the catering is a few thousand and is apparently incredible (no breakfast that day!!) and this is a really generous offer by Bill when he has so many other things to think of.
Bill lived around the corner from us when out boys were in their early teens and Chris and he became lifelong mates, in fact I think he was at our house more than his own! Most of his holidays he had growing up were with us and I suppose he sees this as a little bit of giving back to people who were important in his life.
So we've booked a flash apartment a few minutes walk from the ground and will go up to Melbourne on the early train and come back on one on Sunday. We have 4 hours up there before the game so we may go to the National Art Gallery and have a look at the Van Gough exhibition while we are there.
The game being played is between our team Collingwood and and Port Adelaide and we might actually have a chance of winning???? Either way I expect it will be a great experience.
Lucky us!
One of our son's best friends Bill is a multi millionaire property developer and he has a corporate box at the MCG. Costs squillions to lease one of those but Bill uses it to entertain people important to his business, people who can smooth the way of his huge development projects, politicians and such.
Chris who was having his weekly talk to Bill mentioned that "Dad has never been to a football game at the MCG" and Bill immediately said, well bring him to my box, I'll even put on catering!! Get them to bring other family members, I'll get you 10 tickets. Now the catering is a few thousand and is apparently incredible (no breakfast that day!!) and this is a really generous offer by Bill when he has so many other things to think of.
Bill lived around the corner from us when out boys were in their early teens and Chris and he became lifelong mates, in fact I think he was at our house more than his own! Most of his holidays he had growing up were with us and I suppose he sees this as a little bit of giving back to people who were important in his life.
So we've booked a flash apartment a few minutes walk from the ground and will go up to Melbourne on the early train and come back on one on Sunday. We have 4 hours up there before the game so we may go to the National Art Gallery and have a look at the Van Gough exhibition while we are there.
The game being played is between our team Collingwood and and Port Adelaide and we might actually have a chance of winning???? Either way I expect it will be a great experience.
Lucky us!