Sunday, July 11, 2010
Sunday, London Day 2-1
Sunday morning I took advantage of the afternoon meeting situation by sleeping, and Eric made me look bad by going out in service. At meeting we met all our old friends again, and were able to make many plans for service and fun, as they realized we don't have much time left. In the evening we took the bus to Shepard's Bush, and went to a place called the Green Room. To our surprise we were met by bouncers and a cover charge, but that didn't deter us after coming that far. (I'm not sure if its because I had never done it before but I thought it was cool going through the bouncers and having to show proof of age and getting to go inside. -Eric) We met the brother who had invited us and a few others; we had front row seat in front of a huge screen in the pub. For what you ask? The World Cup final of course, get with the program you silly Americans. The building became more and more crowded, and by kickoff the building was literally packed. The majority there were Spain supporters, and they were a loud an jolly group. (They had so much energy that even though at first I was neutral, towards the end I started to root for Es-pa-ña! Watching football games is interesting because there isn't always things to cheer for so the crowd makes up chants so keep the energy high. Such as Es-pa-ña! Es-pa-ña! Es-pa-ña! And Viva something something!, and so forth. -Eric) The game was tense, no score at all for all of regulation. Finally in the 116th minute Spain scored, and the place erupted. I don't think I've ever experienced anything like it, the people were so so happy. We stuck around a little to watch them all party, and went out to look for a bus home. We finally found one, and rode it home barely able to hear from the deafening roar of the Spaniards.
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lol! I can imagine that the spaniards were loud as being on a plane for 12 hours with half the passengers being spaniards awaiting the result of the football, trust me they can get loud even when flying, they even had champagne when they heard that spain won, i couldnt believe that even the pilot got out of his seat came into the cabin and shouted VIVA ESPAÑA! That was jokes ;) then they were all painting the spanish flag on their faces, they all looked ridiculous and funny at the same time, a lady in the cabin even dressed her little girl in the traditional spanish dress (the little girl looked gorgeous in it though) and then everyone had a small party taking pictures drinking champagne until we landed and then all the comotion started again! hope you had a good time though :)
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That is AWESOME you were able to watch it in such a cool place. Like you said if you dont even like the sport when everyone is so fired up you get excited too. Nice going on the whole Carding issue. But you could have given the bouncers a big tip to go in too LOL
ReplyDeleteWhoa that would have been crazy to be with all those crazy Spaniards for so long! But i bet if the pilot was Spanish he would have came out of the cabin and partied with them too haha.
ReplyDeleteLOL! Eric but i am sure that it must have as crazy down here on earth!
ReplyDeleteYeah we basiclly couldn't hear ourselves think. It was so much fun though!
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