My visit to MCG

Yesterday after a boring day of orientation, we (The pastry and cookery group of students) were informed to comeback tomorrow which is today at 8.30 as we were going on an excursion.

The first thing that cross my mind or any of my other course mates were that we were going to visit a factory called MCG where we were going to see some cooking process or people who are working in the hotel industry.

This morning we gathered at the college at 8.30 in the morning. We thought we were waiting for the bus. Then at 9 o'clock this guy named Andrew gathered us together and split us into 4 groups, so all the pastry students went together.

We taught we were walking to a bus pick up point, to our surprise we walked for 1 hour and there was no bus, then as we were walking we saw the sign board MCG "Melbourne Cricket Ground".

So we were not going to see any kitchen, we were going for an excursion to the MCG. ha ha we were fooled.

So these are the things i saw:

This is the Pitching ground, the stadium can seat
up to 100,000.00 people. the tour guide said that the most people that this stadium contained was 100,022.00 people. awesome isn't it









This is a life size statue of Sir Donald Bradman the legendary cricket player in Melbourne


















This is the view from the the top and ground of the stadium





























This is one of Melbourne born players

And this is how the stadium looked like when it was opened. This is the first stadium where the first test was hit. The guide was saying that every time there was a new technology, the government will tear down a portion of the stadium and reconstruct.


After the long walk we headed back home, and it wasn't that bad. At least I have visited the place tourist and locals head to on the weekends. The 1956 Olympic games was also held at this stadium.