So, on Friday we had a little party at our house! It was the Australian Football League's Premier Game! It is kinda like our Super Bowl here in the States! In order to be part of the Hughes family it's a requirement to be a fan of the Geelong Cats! They did great this season, they only lost one game! We were super excited cause we knew they had a good chance of winning again this year! (They won the Premiers last year!) They played against the Hawthorne Hawks! I was especially excited because I have never seen an Aussie Footy game before, but have heard a ton about it! Melinda, my sister-in-law, and I went and bought some Australian food, or as close as we could get here in SLC, before the game started and we were getting really psyched! Melinda also made an Aussie dessert called Pavlova! Tom doesn't like it so much but I loved it! So, the pre-game show came on and Tom was able to make it home from work in time so he didn't miss any of the actual game! It was so much fun to watch! They don't wear a whole lot of padding like our guys do! However, I have never seen anything so brutal, which I was warned about! They didn't stop the game when people got hurt. If they didn't get off the field fast, they were gonna get run over again! The Cat's did really well the first half and then we don't know what happened! They ended up loosing by 26 points, but that doesn't change the heart of true fans! We will definitely still be supporting them and I would definitely like to see another footy game, but I can't wait to see one in real life! It was a blast beoming more involved in Tom's culture! 
So this kinda shows that they kinda go all out to get the ball! The ball is a bit wider than our ball here so you definitely cannot grab it with just one hand. It's also very smooth leather and hard to hold on to!
This is the team captain! He got hurt in the middle of the game and wasn't able to play for about a quarter! He was really fighting at the end and took the loss pretty hard! It was sad! I hate loosing! I got these pics off the GFL site! Thought they were pretty cool!
