We could have gone to watch one of the "Ashes" test, there's one on my brithday ( Day 2 of the final test if you want to send a card!)January 26 2011
Australia v England
Adelaide
Australia vs England (including Vodafone Ashes Series)
Book your annual leave and plan your holiday, the countdown has started for the Australian Team's mission to recapture the most famous urn in world sport! Australia will do battle with England over five Tests in 2010-11, with the opening stanza locked in for the Gabba from 25 - 29 November 2010. Matches in Adelaide and Perth will follow, with Melbourne's Vodafone Boxing Day Test and Sydney's Vodafone New Year's Test completing the Series.
Following the Vodafone Ashes Series, Australia take on England in a series of seven Commonwealth Bank One Day Internationals and two KFC Twenty20 matches.
http://cricket.com.au/commonwealthbankseries2010-11
But we decided to make a hoilday of it, as I've not visited South Australia yet, so we'll take a week off for the trip. (Hatch can have a week with her dad, dogs a week at the mother in lawsThe Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia. It is one of international cricket's most celebrated rivalries and dates back to 1882. It is currently played biennially, alternately in the United Kingdom and Australia. Since cricket is a summer sport, the venues being in opposite hemispheres means the break between series alternates between 18 and 30 months. A series of "The Ashes" comprises five Test matches, two innings per match, under the regular rules for international Test-match cricket. If a series is drawn then the country already holding the Ashes retains them.
The series is named after a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after a match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground for the first time. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. The English media dubbed the next English tour to Australia (1882–83) as the quest to regain The Ashes.
During that tour a small terracotta urn was presented to England captain Ivo Bligh by a group of Melbourne women. The contents of the urn are reputed to be the ashes of an item of cricket equipment, possibly a bail, ball or stump. The Dowager Countess of Darnley claimed recently that her mother-in-law, Bligh's wife Florence Morphy, said that they were the remains of a lady's veil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashes_series
)Watching a match at the Adelaide Oval has been a dream of mine for many years, it's one of the most beautiful grounds in the world!!
