so as you may have heard we watched the opening games still in Zambia at our good friend Zig Zag's house. we had dinner with his family and we started a pool amongst our team. we each picked a team to back, and if your team wins the world cup, you win the 150 rand prize. Josh had England, Alli had Germany, Kristen Brazil, Collins Netherlands and raf and i picked Spain. The excitement was building. and as you can imagine flying into south africa the next day tipped the scale. Vuvuzela's blowing every few minutes and scores being updated over the loud speakers. The airport was flooded with soccer fans. we we even played a bit with some Italian fans.
But that came to a quick end when the ball was deflected, knocking down the smoke detector and bringing the airport roof tile crashing to the floor.
After a never before heard announcement on the plane about blowing vuvuzela's on an aircraft being a federal offense, i spent the remainder of the two hour flight reading about all that the 2010 south africa world cup has to offer. after a quick two hours on the plane, and a long 2 hours waiting for our pick up we spent our first day in Durban, and visited the two places we would eventually watch most of the games.
the first was Escombe Soccer Club, which is only a 5 minute walk from the base, it was basically a pub that had two big screens to watch the games, and on the weekend, they set up an outdoor screen which is even better. they club has a field with a beauty pitch. and halftimes and after the games we usually always find ourselves out there.
the second place was the fan fest. this was in the city on the beach front, they had massive screens, food tents and free stuff. it was a cool place that we visited a lot for different reasons during our time in Durban. Both places had opposite atmospheres, but fun great in the senses.
So- lets watch some soccer.
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