Welcome to the first of our new blog, an occassional posting of family events and grey nomad travel adventures.
Recently the Perth Wildcats celebrated its 30th Anniversary to which Dave got top tickets courtesy of his Meerkats boss Gavin.
A prestige celebratory event at which we rubbed shoulders with past owner Bob Williams and his sons Richard and Chris (the passage of time is a curious matter, for young Chris was in those days employed as a floor wiper and about 9 years of age about the start of the new millenium).
Other shoulder to shoulder greetings involved James Crawford, flown in for the event from his now home in Alabama, Cal Bruton, Eric Watterson, Ned Coten, Trevor Torrence and being actually seated next to the guest of honor for the day, John Worsfold
David was stoked getting to update his 20 y.o. pictures with JC, who not even remembered the event but remarked that Brian’s home cooking on that night included salmon; and an ever obliging top bloke Woosha happy to smile for the IPhone.
The Wildcats Legends team defeated the Pioneer Westate Wildcats and the current Wildcats champions beat the Adelaide 36ers
All that was Sunday February 3rd and the celebrating continued the following morning at a breakfast for 500 at the Perth Exhibition Centre as moi sat next to the former owner and enjoyed the banter and breaking bread.
As one who has only ever won a bride doll in a raffle imagine my joy when David rang again to announce he had fallen heir to more box seats at the following Friday night game. Retirement does have its drawbacks. One never gets a day off in retirement.
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