June 21 - Spain v. Honduras

Hello. I had to take a few days off from blogging between rushing around Johannesburg going to games and whatnot and traveling to Cairo, which must be by far the most busy, crowded, chaotic, noisy, polluted and crazy city I have ever been to. My kind of town, for sure!

So on Monday, June 21, we did next to nothing all day except for make our last arduous trek out to a World Cup match, this time to Ellis Park to watch Spain play Honduras. There are only a couple things I can now recall from this trip:

-Lars (and later I as well) ate something called "bunny chow" on the way to the match. It was being sold by a street vendor that was also selling stuff I typically associate with Indian cuisine, such as samosas and roti. The bunny chow consisted of five or so inches of the butt end of a loaf of white bread hollowed out and stuffed with curried chicken, carrots and potatoes. It was very tasty. I was later assured that there are different versions of bunny chow, this being the Indian variety. I added some of the homemade (and very spicy) chili paste that the vendor was offering to the effect of even greater delight.

enjoying a "bunny chow"

Then we watched Spain kick the crap out of Honduras 2-0. It could have been 5-0 or 6-0 all too easily. We had great seats to watch the match and it was fun to watch the great Spain power around all day. We got back early, as the next day promised to be a long one.

our seats to watch Spain play Honduras, probably the best we had in the eight games we attended

So, after all the matches, we saw in person:
8 matches
4 stadiums
22 goals (2.75 per match)
2 own goals (3 if you count Robert Green's hilarious error to give the USA a goal)
6 parking locations

OK, television, it's over to you to keep me watching in the 2010 World Cup.