Unlike the excitement of Wednesday’s happenings in Sandton, today’s opening World Cup match was a subdued affair for me. I watched the opening ceremony at my parent’s house with my parents and the boys; while Lance watched it at work.
It wasn’t completely quiet though, because you could hear the constant blasts from vuvuzelas around the neighbourhood, and, from the garden where Elaine’s friends and the boys contributed to the racket. Bryan and friends tested out the vuvuzelas and kuduzelas before they left to spend the afternoon in a pub… and of course I had to take photos
It was actually so awesome to see and feel the patriotism today. Almost everyone was dressed in yellow and green, and loads of people had SA flag tattoos and faces painted (Connor’s face was painted by his teacher)… and everyone was making a noise with vuvuzelas and other types of horns.
We actually didn’t spend the entire time at my parents house, and we left during the match to go to the local Spar shop and then go home to the dogs. As we were standing in the queue at the shops, we watched Bafana score the goal on the TV that was mounted on the wall. And the place erupted. It was so cool to be somewhere with excitement at that time. The store cashiers went nuts, and the store managers just laughed along with them all! They were running around, blowing vuvuzelas, laughing, jumping, and one lady was crying. It was so cool for the boys to experience the excitement (they were a little taken aback at first actually because it erupted so quickly).
When we got home, we carried on watching, and this time Bradley was a little more interested. When one of the players kicked the ball and it hit the post he piped us “That’s what happens when you don’t aim”. LOL I suppose he’s right
Even though Bafana drew against Mexico in the match, I think they did an awesome job… the made us even more proud.
I want the boys to experience more of the World Cup now… I’m going to take some leave next week and I’m thinking of taking them to a “quiet” fan park.
See the full set of 2010 photo-a-day photos on my Project 365 Flickr Set.
I haven’t taken many photos of Connor not acting like a hooligan, so I thought it would be apt
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