MGC tour

MCG Tour and museum.

Today we did a tour of the Melbourne Cricket Ground and Museum.

 Plenty of opportunities  for photos although Tom wasn't really that impressed

The changing room.
 I was expecting it to be a bit more luxurious than this.

The interview  room. Before we started the tour we were told to keep up with the guide at all times, we were also told that it was "pram friendly"Both statements as it turned out were a bit of a big fat fib! The guide scooted off like a greyhound and there were hundreds of steps. It was a bit of a mission to keep up and it was hard to get photos. It would have been good to have got Malc sitting here.

It is enormous. They use it for footie during the off season

 This photo is nothing to do with the MCG but it is easy to see from the ground.It's the Sky Tower on the South Bank. We went up last year and the views are fabulous. You can pay extra to go onto the viewing platform. As you enter the walls appear to fall away and you find yourself  on this bit that sticks out. It has a glass floor so it gives people a huge shock.

 The members bar

 Very swish.

 This is part of a huge tapestry showing people engaged in lots of different sporting activities

 The founders of the MCG. Just five men.

 After lunch we went into the museum.We thought it was just going to be a museum about the MCG and cricket.It was actually a museum of sport and it was huge,not what we were expecting at all. There was a separate section for cricket and we could have spent all day just looking round.
This is Don Bradman widely acknowledged as the greatest test cricketer of all time.

 Apart from all the displays there was also a huge interactive area. It was largely deserted so Malc made the most of it.

 One of the sections was about paralympians
 This is a reinforced wheelchair that had been used for wheelchair rugby. It was really bashed about.
 They must knock seven bells out of each other!

This display was in the horse racing section. It was very cleverly done and showed how the muscles move when the horse is put through its paces.

It was a brilliant day out and we were totally worn out at the end of it.