Well it is finally here...THE WORLD CUP (and summer). Footie mania has been building up for a few weeks now and we have another good month to go. I have been seeing white flags with red crosses (the England Team's Flag) everywhere. More so than Laker flags---on cars, houses, store fronts, toy stores, grocery stores, you name it. Griffen's class performed assembly on Friday-what each child would put in a magic box...one child put in the England Flag and has his face painted.
I think the craze is even bigger than the Superbowl. Examples:
The local paper is having a contest to see who is the biggest "Football Widow."
I guess hooligans are a problem too-bringing violence to the matches. The government has gone as far as banning certain people from attending games-they have a list. All airports have this list and have special police forces out to prevent them from going to Germany. Crazy. I read today even suspected troublemakers are detained and prevented departure.
I noticed on I-Tunes there is a CD out full of England Anthems meant to instill English Pride, a World Cup Sing-a-long CD, a official World Cup Anthem (new one each year), a World Cup Classics CD by the World Cup Willies (slang for penis) plus several spoofs..."Is This the Way to the World Cup (Amarillo), and so on.
The first game was today-I felt like I should watch it, but didn't. Instead I took the kids on a bike ride and then came back and attempted to blow up the pool without our shopvac. We used the sprinkler instead. It was a warm and windy 80+ today. May not sound like much to you-but to us it was. I miss having AC. Its not hot enough long enough here to warrant anyone having central air-so here we are sitting in a brick house with no insulation and its hot. At least my laundry is dry.
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