Today we went on a tour of a diamond mine which the world famous Cullinan diamond was found. This mine is known as one of the greatest mines in the world and has many well known and rare diamonds which have been found there. They also had a showroom and were offering 20% off all diamonds....too bad I didn't have an extra 2-3 grand in my pocket. Then we went to the fan park just outside of Pretoria to watch Portugal vs Brazil. They have fan parks all over South Africa which are free to the public. It was pretty cool to see so many people gathered together from all around the world, all there to watch and enjoy soccer. We met a couple from NYC who were selling some tickets to the next US game and my uncle who is giving us a ride to the game Saturday didn't have tickets so now we are all going to be able to go to the game against Ghana which is good because we won't get home untill about 2-3 am. The guy selling the tickets told us that he got them from an Algerian at the airport. He said that between the airport and ads on craigslist there are a ton of England fans who thought England would take 1st in their group now selling or looking to trade tickets. The fan park was cool and not nearly as scary as I thought it would be. There was security all over and you had to go through security to even get into the gates. After that we thought we would drive over to the Irene Lodge which is where the US team is staying. We figured that there would be no way we could get a chance to meet any players or even get in the gate but we thought we would at least try. We were right....we couldn't even get past the gate, oh well. I'm starting to get very anxious for the USA vs Ghana game tomorrow!!! If USA can get past Ghana which I think they can then they will play the winner of Uruguay vs Korea. They are set up very good to have a chance to make it to the world cup semi finals!!! We have tickets to the quarter final game if USA wins so I sure hope they do. The quarter final game would be the day before I fly out and it would be in the Soccer City Stadium in Jo-Burg which holds 92,000 people. That would be the coolest thing ever!!!! Bring on Ghana!! GO USA!!Friday, June 25, 2010
Fan Park
Today we went on a tour of a diamond mine which the world famous Cullinan diamond was found. This mine is known as one of the greatest mines in the world and has many well known and rare diamonds which have been found there. They also had a showroom and were offering 20% off all diamonds....too bad I didn't have an extra 2-3 grand in my pocket. Then we went to the fan park just outside of Pretoria to watch Portugal vs Brazil. They have fan parks all over South Africa which are free to the public. It was pretty cool to see so many people gathered together from all around the world, all there to watch and enjoy soccer. We met a couple from NYC who were selling some tickets to the next US game and my uncle who is giving us a ride to the game Saturday didn't have tickets so now we are all going to be able to go to the game against Ghana which is good because we won't get home untill about 2-3 am. The guy selling the tickets told us that he got them from an Algerian at the airport. He said that between the airport and ads on craigslist there are a ton of England fans who thought England would take 1st in their group now selling or looking to trade tickets. The fan park was cool and not nearly as scary as I thought it would be. There was security all over and you had to go through security to even get into the gates. After that we thought we would drive over to the Irene Lodge which is where the US team is staying. We figured that there would be no way we could get a chance to meet any players or even get in the gate but we thought we would at least try. We were right....we couldn't even get past the gate, oh well. I'm starting to get very anxious for the USA vs Ghana game tomorrow!!! If USA can get past Ghana which I think they can then they will play the winner of Uruguay vs Korea. They are set up very good to have a chance to make it to the world cup semi finals!!! We have tickets to the quarter final game if USA wins so I sure hope they do. The quarter final game would be the day before I fly out and it would be in the Soccer City Stadium in Jo-Burg which holds 92,000 people. That would be the coolest thing ever!!!! Bring on Ghana!! GO USA!!
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