Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Super Bowl -- live from Africa!
So, our house has DSTV (don’t get too excited, we only get about 25 “African” channels about 75% of the time), and we had the chance to watch the super Bowl live from UGANDA! The only catch was that it started at 2 am! It was a long night…but a lot of fun.
Lori and David showed up around 11:30 pm, and then Jay came around 12:15 am, followed by Shane and Carole at 12:30. Everyone brought all sorts of treats—Chex mix, M&Ms, Hershey’s Miniatures and more!
Most of us lasted throughout the whole game—even that lovely half time show! I think it might be time for Mick Jagger to retire!
The game was pretty good, although I think the refs made some pretty bad calls, all in favor of the Steerlers! We were worried about the power going out at 6:00am (and the game wasn’t over yet!), but luckily we escaped that power load-shedding. The power stayed on and we were able to see the whole game without the deafening generator.
Luckily, we were able to sleep in this morning a little bit too. Then this afternoon, ESPN Africa replayed the game around 4, but we had to start the generator because out power went out at around noon. Curt Baker came over and watched most of it by himself. He had his own little Super Bowl party…make sure you see the pictures on my picture website. It was very cute. He even asked if we could fast forward the commercials!
Lori and David showed up around 11:30 pm, and then Jay came around 12:15 am, followed by Shane and Carole at 12:30. Everyone brought all sorts of treats—Chex mix, M&Ms, Hershey’s Miniatures and more!
Most of us lasted throughout the whole game—even that lovely half time show! I think it might be time for Mick Jagger to retire!
The game was pretty good, although I think the refs made some pretty bad calls, all in favor of the Steerlers! We were worried about the power going out at 6:00am (and the game wasn’t over yet!), but luckily we escaped that power load-shedding. The power stayed on and we were able to see the whole game without the deafening generator.
Luckily, we were able to sleep in this morning a little bit too. Then this afternoon, ESPN Africa replayed the game around 4, but we had to start the generator because out power went out at around noon. Curt Baker came over and watched most of it by himself. He had his own little Super Bowl party…make sure you see the pictures on my picture website. It was very cute. He even asked if we could fast forward the commercials!
# posted by beth @ 8:14 PM 
