Day 19
Well, I think John made his flight this morning, but I haven't heard back from him yet...
I was trying desparately last night to trade our tickets for today's Italy-Australia match for some tickets to the Brazil match tomorrow to no avail. I am really wanting to watch the Brazil team in action. I think that they are fielding probably the best team ever to grace a pitch...but I guess I'll just have to wait and see.
We are travelling from Frankfurt to Kaiserslautern today, which is only a short trip. We arrive at the stadium with plenty of time to spare. At this stadium, which we have been to a couple of days ago for the Spain-Saudi Arabia match, there are no parking lots near the stadium, so we have to park several kilometers away and take a bus to the stadium. As it turns out, of all the stadia that we've been to, this has been the easiest access in terms of parking, transportion, and congestion. As we were walking in, I took a look at the tickets to get a gauge as to where they were located...row 66...that's right, row 66! I knew that this stadium was somewhat small compared to several of the others, and row 66 would definately be a hike. We got into the stairwell, walked up about 4 flights of stairs...and this was section 21.1 and we were in 21.4...oh boy...we kept climbing and climbing. I don't think I've climbed that many steps since...well, I don't think I've ever climbed that many steps before just for fun. Our seats were 5 rows from the absolute top row; we were almost the "Mr. Irrelevants" in the staium (you know, the person in the top row in the corner...who would ever buy those tickets on purpose). Here's a shot of things around us:
(yes, that's an inflatable kangaroo...there seemed to many of them around the stadium)
(that's surely a manequin head...don't know the story behind it, but they painted it the Aussie colors)
(these are the same blokes celebrating with the head)
(I'm not quite sure what's on this guy's head, but I think he must have swiped it from one of those fiiiine Swedish gals...but wait, he's an Aussie...well, I guess the colors almost matched at least)
(our view from the top!)
After the match, we headed back to our apartment. Got in pretty late, so off to bed it is.
Cheers,
Rocco
I was trying desparately last night to trade our tickets for today's Italy-Australia match for some tickets to the Brazil match tomorrow to no avail. I am really wanting to watch the Brazil team in action. I think that they are fielding probably the best team ever to grace a pitch...but I guess I'll just have to wait and see.
We are travelling from Frankfurt to Kaiserslautern today, which is only a short trip. We arrive at the stadium with plenty of time to spare. At this stadium, which we have been to a couple of days ago for the Spain-Saudi Arabia match, there are no parking lots near the stadium, so we have to park several kilometers away and take a bus to the stadium. As it turns out, of all the stadia that we've been to, this has been the easiest access in terms of parking, transportion, and congestion. As we were walking in, I took a look at the tickets to get a gauge as to where they were located...row 66...that's right, row 66! I knew that this stadium was somewhat small compared to several of the others, and row 66 would definately be a hike. We got into the stairwell, walked up about 4 flights of stairs...and this was section 21.1 and we were in 21.4...oh boy...we kept climbing and climbing. I don't think I've climbed that many steps since...well, I don't think I've ever climbed that many steps before just for fun. Our seats were 5 rows from the absolute top row; we were almost the "Mr. Irrelevants" in the staium (you know, the person in the top row in the corner...who would ever buy those tickets on purpose). Here's a shot of things around us:
(yes, that's an inflatable kangaroo...there seemed to many of them around the stadium)
(that's surely a manequin head...don't know the story behind it, but they painted it the Aussie colors)
(these are the same blokes celebrating with the head)
(I'm not quite sure what's on this guy's head, but I think he must have swiped it from one of those fiiiine Swedish gals...but wait, he's an Aussie...well, I guess the colors almost matched at least)
(our view from the top!)
After the match, we headed back to our apartment. Got in pretty late, so off to bed it is.
Cheers,
Rocco
posted by Rocco at 1:17 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Chad
Im not sure if you remember me...Im the South African guy that met you guys 4 years ago at the FIFA World Cup in Germany.....
I just thought I'd drop you guys a note to say hi....World Cup fever has really taken over here at home in SA, and it reminded me of the awesome time that I had in Germany...
I was at the Confed Cup 7 months ago and the US really surprised us all....Nearly won the whole competition.....Hopefully the experience would have helped you guys and we now expect the US to have a good run at the big one itself....
Anyway let me know how you guys are keeping :) It will be good to hear from you....
Imran (imran.essuf@yahoo.com)
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