A few notes first on our sightseeing to explain some of the previous photos. Early Friday morning Bill and I walked over to see the tennis center where the Australian Open is held. All around the entrance to the grounds are bronze busts of Aussie tennis players and an impressive statue of Rod Laver, one of the all-time greats!
Next we headed to the Melbourne Cricket Grounds nearby. The stadium can hold 100,000 fans. There were some amazing statues of cricket players outside the stadium with incredible lifelike detail.
In the afternoon we headed over to the Victorian Croquet center for practice, the players' meeting, and Welcome Ceremony which included a member of parliament, president of the World Croquet Federation, and an Elder from an aboriginal tribe who performed a smoke ceremony to dispel of evil spirits and welcome good spirits. The eucalyptus leaves he burned will be buried at the VCC in honor of the ceremony.
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| USA - Matt Griffith, Cheryl Bromley, Mohammad Kamal, Hal Denton, and Sherif Abdelwahab. |
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| Host Country - Australia |
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| Team New Zealand |
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| The incredible Egyptian players! |
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| Canada's John Richardson and Sweden's Joakim Norback |
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| England's powerhouse players - Stephen Mulliner, John-Paul Moberly, and Richard Brooks. |
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