BBQ + Futbol

Last night Erika and I had a great time with our neighbors, the Clows (I'm like 97% sure that's how you spell their name). We spent all day preparing to go to their house for dinner. We made some pasta salad, bought some beer, and Erika made some delicious cookies. John & Cathy Clow live in the house right next door to us. They have 4 kids, 2 boys (Josiah and Evan) and 2 girls (Becca and Abby), all of which go to my school, Santa Teresa. They range from 5th grade to 1st. They have a really nice house with a great big back yard.
We had some tasty grilled chicken for dinner and a bunch of other foods including Cathy's home baked bread. Yum! After dinner, and then after a couple games of Wii Mariokart, which I dominated in, we headed to the socc....excuse me, futbol stadium. It is only a 10 minute walk from our house so it was really easy to get to and get out of later. We bought our tickets from a scalper so we didn't have to wait in line, and then, holding on to my wallet, we walked in the main gates with the crowd. The arena is so cool looking because it is all multi-colored with just concrete slabs to sit on and little kids run around and get drinks and snacks for you so you don't ever have to get up.

The game was so crazy! We were cheering for Vida, one of La Ceiba's two city teams. But the other side had a cheering section that kept shooting bottle rockets and throwing fire crackers onto the field. Oh yes, there were vuvuzela horns as well. The game was pretty good, a little boring at first but it picked up towards the end when Vida made an amazing corner kick to header goal. But really, I got just as much enjoyment out of watching the cheering sections, called the Jumping sections cause you literally jump the whole time to the beat of a drum, and of seeing everybody run for cover when it rained for about 10 minutes. It was great. The game finished with a tie 2-2. Here we are;



Oh yeah, cultural note. Water, and some other drinks, come in bags here in Honduras.