Me, Ricky and Andy!!

We thought it must be a look-a-like turning up when we saw that Ricky Ponting, the Australian cricket captain, was turning up for 2 hours at the Moranbah shopping centre!! We were assured by the staff it was genuine, so Andy got his England shirt washed and ironed and we headed off to queue with the kids to see him this afternoon! I had kept the front page of one of the newspapers here that had published a huge photo of England winning the ashes, so I brought that along too as I thought it would be nice for Ricky to sign it!
He started laughing when he saw Andy in his shirt and asked whether he'd get any stick off us! I said we were the only ones here happy with the win, and that we had really enjoyed the series. We shook his hand, had our photo taken, and then I said unfortunately we couldn't find any other paper in the house for him to sign other than the picture of the England team...
He asked us loads of questions about why we were there and where we were from in England, and was absolutely lovely, we were really impressed, and said to him we might end up supporting them next series... yeah right!!!