Ashes

I haven't been writing lately because there are no major things going on for us right to write about.
I realize now though that every day is a major even or great experience. I experience something new everyday and I always forget to write about it because I take so muchf ro granted here. So I am just going to write about random things that I can think of. This will probably be very unorganized and random so be prepared.

[/b]Ashes[b]
Meribeth and I both had a night off so we decided to go out on the town on a Thursday night. Well this one particular Thursday was special because it was he beginning of Ashes. Ashes is an event that happens I think every year. It is a 5 day cricket match. ya I don't get it either, who in their right mind would want to play cricket, let alone for 5 days! If you have never watched cricket, you aren't really missing much. So anyways, Ashses is a special game, Australia versus England. Well, we decided to go to a bar that we heard was pretty popular. The place was packed and it was retty much all guys. So we met a few old guys first and he told me that ashes began hundreds of years ago when England and Australia were playing against each other and a wife of the Australian captain stuck an urn into some ashes and said here play for this. Well funny thing is I just looked it up on the internet because I wanted to make sure I had the facts straight before I wrote about it and that is not what happened at all! The internet says that in 1882 England lost at home and the local newspaper wrote a mock obituary saying that the England Cricket team has died and their ashes can be viewed at a certain place. This became the "ashes" they were playing for. so all in all I have no idea whatsoever the truth. haha. It was a very fun night and there were all kinds of people out and many of them were from England. Apparently, this is a huge event and a ton of people come over from England to watch. We will have to get out and see a cricket game just to say we went.
As for going out after the game there were guys everywhere, in every bar, so it was great fun. =)