We arrived in Cape Town, South Africa on Monday evening. Cape Town is a beautiful city, much nicer and safer than Jo-Burg. There was a lot of World Cup excitment in Cape Town especially at the wharf. It was a party there 24/7. Definitely the coolest world cup crowd we have encountered on our trip. You couldn't look 5 feet without seeing a soccer jersey. Tuesday morning we drove down the coast to first see the penguins at penguin beach and then to head to the Cape of Good Hope which is the southern most part of South Africa. It was terrible weather so we couldn't see much but that didn't stop us from taking the hike to the light house at the top of the mountain. It was worth it though...very pretty with the cliffs and a rainbow shining on them as a result of all the rain. We ate at a resturant there called Two Oceans which has a view of both the Atlantic and Indian oceans...but since the weather was bad we couldn't see much. That evening we headed back to Cape Town to see Portugal vs Spain in a round of 16 match. It was a great game!! The stadium was absulutly breath taking. I'm glad USA didn't have to play Spain...they are looking really good. Spain, Brazil, and Argentina are all playing great soccer and I believe one of them will win, probably Brazil.
Wednesday morning we took the gondola up the mountain to Table Top Mountain. Pictures do not do this place justice at all. It is so beautiful there. It was another bad weather day so we could only see off of the opposite side of the mountain from Cape Town but it was still very cool. After that we drove to the tip of Lions Head which has a great view of both Table Top and Cape Town. The rest of that day we hung out at the wharf where all of the action was and had a nice dinner on the peir.
Thursday morning we went out to Robben Island to see nelson Mendela's cell and the prison. It was cool but the boat ride was so slow and the waves were very high. I felt pretty see sick after the 45 minutes there and back. After that we had lunch and headed back to the airport to come back to Jo-burg.
Today is Friday and we went to the Apartheid Museum. It was very educational but very unorganized and way too long. We were there three hours reading the whole time and we only got through about half of it. Right now I am watching Brazil beating Netherlands 1-0 and in about an hour and a half we are headed to Soweto to see Uruguay vs Ghana play in Soccer City Stadium which holds 92,000 people. I wish it was USA playing though.... :(
We arrived in Cape Town, South Africa on Monday evening. Cape Town is a beautiful city, much nicer and safer than Jo-Burg. There was a lot of World Cup excitment in Cape Town especially at the wharf. It was a party there 24/7. Definitely the coolest world cup crowd we have encountered on our trip. You couldn't look 5 feet without seeing a soccer jersey. Tuesday morning we drove down the coast to first see the penguins at penguin beach and then to head to the Cape of Good Hope which is the southern most part of South Africa. It was terrible weather so we couldn't see much but that didn't stop us from taking the hike to the light house at the top of the mountain. It was worth it though...very pretty with the cliffs and a rainbow shining on them as a result of all the rain. We ate at a resturant there called Two Oceans which has a view of both the Atlantic and Indian oceans...but since the weather was bad we couldn't see much. That evening we headed back to Cape Town to see Portugal vs Spain in a round of 16 match. It was a great game!! The stadium was absulutly breath taking. I'm glad USA didn't have to play Spain...they are looking really good. Spain, Brazil, and Argentina are all playing great soccer and I believe one of them will win, probably Brazil.
This was a great game. Good to see two of the world's best teams play against each other in front of 63,000 fans in one of the worlds coolest stadiums.
The US team that we watched play against Ghana was not the same team as the US team that we saw play Algeria. They were just not on their game. It all started when Bob Bradley decided to start Ricardo Clark instead of Maurice Edu. Once again Clark lost the ball in the midfield and the counter attack resulted in a goal for Ghana. Then minutes later Clark nearly gets a red card but is given a yellow. At the 30th minute Bradley finally pulled him out and the US did much better for the remainder of the game but they still were just not playing as good as they could. That first early goal really hurt them being that it was the 3rd time this cup that they had been scored on in the first 10 minutes. Also Tim Howard should've saved both of Ghana goals. The highlight of the match of course was when Dempsey broke through the defense and was fouled in the box which earned a PK that Donovan easily put away. That gave US a lot of hope but then they just didn't step it up as they should. It is amazing how fast I went from being sooooo excited about this world cup to being very dissapointed. Now I have to watch Ghana vs Uruguay in the quarter finals Friday....yay. :( I'm very sad that the US lost and I wish they would have perfomed better because they really had a good position to make it all the way to the semi's if they wanted it bad enough. Oh well....4 more years till Brazil 2014. But first I get to see Portugal vs Spain this Tuesday in Cape Town!!! SO EXCITED!!
