Kalik styling the USA bunting ...

Bye bye Jamestown... See you in a few weeks!

Landon made it into the official WC sticker book ??!

World Cup here we come!

Nicole and I are finally headed down to see Jed in Rio tomorrow!!

Jed has been in Brazil for nearly a month (this time) ... And is having an excellent beginning to the World Cup - with ESPN's ratings going through the roof!

Follow us for the next three weeks as we record our experiences in Rio and on our cruise down the Amazon in Peru. 

We are keeping our fingers crossed that USA will continue their prowess and continue on to the round of 16 ... We have tickets to the 4th of July match in Rio - and there is a real possibility that the US could be playing!!

The Finals!

Are finally here!
3 tix... for Darb, Nic & I ...

NED bus waiting for the team :

Efan Ekoku preps for the game :

Christie show-cases the custom vuvuzelas :

IBC humor!

Hangin in the IBC halls w/ daddio :

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Soweto : 10 July

We were given a special tour yesterday.

Moss Tau, a friend of Hugh Masekela (famous South African musician, and Sal's dad), gave us a first hand tour and account of the Soweto Uprising that started 16 June 1976.

Moss had been 30 yrs old at the time, too old to participate, as it was the students that had risen up in protest of a new law that was to mandate schools use the Africaans (Dutch-based) language, instead of English. His children were still in elementary school.

We went to visit the newly-erected statue of the student leader of the uprising Teboho "Tsietsi" Mashinini, which is on the grounds of the high school he attended.



We then followed the route the students had walked, and stopped at the site of their 1st clash with the police - near the Hector Pieterson memorial :

We also visited the houses of Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu - who lived on the same street in Soweto ... I can only imagine the level of political activity there in the 50s and 60s!

Lunch at Nabita... Making friends.
Nic's same 2 questions work all over the world : "what's your name?" and "how old are you?"

Cape Town (July 5-8)

Table Mountain - 6 July 2010

Boy oh boy! we all match in our spanky ESPN vests!


Nic met a canine Brazil supporter on a rock :


Jed gets behind the camera:





Pre-game neatness (and quiet) at NED-URU semis match
(VIP section ... thanks again Jed!!!!) :

Headphones dampen the vuvuzelas... And we got to keep the blankets! :

Cape Point Light House - 7 July :

Penguins at Boulder Beach :

Baboons on the side of the road... I was trying to get a photo of them opening a car door... but those smart baboons must have been somewhere else ... these were just picking bugs off each other! 

8 July: 

Darb goes to tour Robben Island (Mandela's prison) ... 

while I go to lunch with Tommy Gonzales :

Nic bouncing on the trampoline of Tommy's new 90' cat in Elliott Basin :

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