One ticket, Two games.......

On Thursday night, I was lucky enough to be able to go to Wellington to watch two games of international netball with my dear friend Leah, her two gorgeous girls and my Macy.  None of us had ever been to a big netball game like this before so we were fully excited.  We bought a few dress up items to get into the spirit of things, blew up our clackers (a highlight after seeing them on tv) and waited......

The first game was Australia versus South Africa and being Australian, I felt proud to watch the Diamonds and Macy and I got to see some of our favourite players.  Goal shoot Caitlin Bassett is more amazing in real life and just effortlessly shoots her goals, Madison Brown zipped around the court and Bianca Chatfield was impressive in the goal circle.  It was a good game with the Diamonds winning 68-36.  Here's some of my fav photos from the game and before.......

Wellington......beautiful.

 

Having a swing to burn up excited energy before the games.

Leah and I....friends forever xxx

Heading in to the arena......yellow ribbons for Australia

Ready for the Diamonds to come on the court.  Go Australia!!!

National anthem time...I sang a bit but was the only one lol...

First goal goes to Erin Bell....

Group huddle....great game.

Game number two was between the Silverferns and England.  What a thrill for Macy, Levi and Jemma (along with their mums, lol) to get to see some of their idols play netball in 'real life' and to be pretty close to the action.  We were sitting right behind the netball goal and saw the shooters take some impressive shots.  The shooters are who we concentrate on as Macy is a shooter so we closely watched the techniques they used.  Macy even recognised some of their warm up drills as ones she did at netball practice (way to go Mrs. W xx) Taking the girls over to Wellington to see these games has really increased their passion and love of netball, especially when they won 57-46.  Here's some photos from the Silverferns game........

Quick change into the afros to support the Silverferns...Jemma and Leah.

From yellow to black.  We support both!!!

Our favourites.....Irene Van Dyk, Cathrine Latu and Macy's hero, Maria Tutaia

National anthem time...this time everyone sang lol.

Maria, she shoots and scores from just about anywhere.

Irene shooting from far away (for her) but got it :)

Latu sinking one...love the hand movement.

We had such a fabulous time, the crowd was great and Leah got a txt to say we had been on tv, so the girls were stoked. Actually, I think Leah and I may have high-fived about that! And speaking of shopping...we were weren't we???  I finally spent my Acquisitions voucher that my lil sis gave me for Christmas!!  I know!!  So because I like to buy practical things, I bought somethings that I will use a lot so I can think of my sister when I use them...and then I got two little bits cos they were too cute not to get....

Practical gravy boat and butter dish....

and sooo cute cupcake stand and birdie.

What an awesome day......a drive over the hill, a bit of shopping and lunch, some hot drinks and hot chips in a fancy cafe then onto Quad series netball.....certainly a day/night not to forget.

Thanks Leah, Levi, Jemma and my Macy for sharing it with me.  

Let's do it again soon!!!

Love trudy-n xoxx