Rugby Game and Canberra

Friday night a bunch of us got tickets for the rugby semi- finals the Dragons vs. the Sea Eagles. It was really fun and cool to be in a "real" Australian setting, surrounded by Australians. Rugby is a fun but complicated game to watch. The stadium was really cool, in a circular shape with half a dome covering it. We didnt go out after becuase the next morning we had to wake up really early for our field trip to the capital Canberra. In theory, I was pretty mad that they took up one of our weekends to visit museums and monuments and such- especially becuase it was so beautiful and a perfect weekend to travel, but I tried to make the best of it. Canberra has a population of 300,000 but it is the most boring city I have ever been in. There are no people around. We mostly went to museums and a few memorials, and looked at the capital (all boring). On the bright side, we drove through the embassy park and alot of the embassys were really cool, but of course the USA's was 10x the size of the others, on top of the hill, and beautiful. It kind of looked like Harvard but better kept! Im glad to see where our tax dollars are going!