36 hours in Hanover
Our short stay in Hanover calls for an abbreviated blog. Or maybe it is just late and we want to get back to watch the Sweden-England match and get to bed early for our 7am departure to Nurnberg tomorrow. So, here is a top 10 list from Hanover:
10. Making a pasta dinner in our hotel room after our "incident" in Amsterdam (see footnote).
9. Hanover has Internet cafes.
8. A lesson in Geography: The Polish fans had fewer miles to travel than the Costa Ricans. They probably outnumbered us 300 to 1.
7. A great stadium atmosphere: Whereas the opening match had a lot of "suits", this game saw 44,000 ordinary cheering fans!
6. Every Polish fan simultaneously breaking out into a cheer- how do they all do that at once?
5. Polish and Costa Rican fans exchanging jerseys after the match.
4. A Costa Rican fan with a huge nine foot Ronaldinho bobble head.
3. Riot police taking pictures with the fans because they had nothing else to do.
2. Mark competing with the local kids to collect cups in order to return them and collect the 1 euro pfand (deposit). Mark found three, which was less than most nine-year olds, but enough to pay for our pretzel.
1. Clean socks (we finally found a laundromat)
Footnote 1: We went to the grocery store in Amsterdam to buy white milk and chocolate milk. When we got home, we realized after our first gulps respectively that we purchased chocolate pudding mix and a liquidy sour cream. Mark's Dutch apparently was a bit off. However, to be fair, you would think that the lady who checked us out would have thought it was strange for two tourists to purchase these items and might have asked us if we were looking for milk!
Footnote 2: Andrew, Lisa would have danced the Wanchope, but alas he did not score. Maybe in the 2010 world cup.
posted by mark and lisa @ 12:10 PM
4 Comments:
One would think that being 100% Dutch would provide the inate capability to differentiate between pudding and milk. What a great people watching time this must be... noted some of the antics through the news reporting.
Sweden-England 2-2 tie great game not what was expected in Sweden.
Never been to the homeland look forward to your observations.
Keep up with those kids Mark.
Yes Lisa the family is into the World Cup
Look forward to the USA/Ghana game
What a gentile nature shown between players like a friendship among equals.
I do imagine differences as the groups begin to merge into round 2
Mark and Lisa
Thanks for the yahoo card. They did resemble my three brothers. John was in the middle, Mark the tall one and Stephen was jumping the most. Thanks. Your trip sounds wonderful. Bonnie
This is Joe. I've enjoyed all the postings, but this one stands out, with Mark collecting cups with the kids and of course the pudding and sour cream purchase. It gives me more reason to stay away from nonEnglish speaking countries. Although I guess that is part of the adventure.
Even though I'm not the big soccer fan, I think I would even have enjoyed these games. To bad to hear about the U.S. loss to Ghana.
Julianna- we found a bridge here named after you. We'll have to show you the picture we took of it in Traverse City.
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