Living in Tamarindo, Costa Rica

Safari Baby!

Posted by Kristina We woke up Saturday morning with 3 games of soccer per day, as well as 6 live soccer games under our belts and decided, “Maybe we should do something else.” So we did! Sunday morning we left for a town called Hluhluwe, and if you don’t know, the “hl” is pronounced like this, [...]

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Holland vs. Japan – World Cup 2010

Posted by Kristina After the US vs. Slovenia game ended around 6:30pm, we left for Ballito, because we had a 1:30pm game, Holland vs. Japan! We arrived in Ballito around 1am, this gave us about 7 hours of sleep, until we woke up and prepared for yet another game! We headed for Suncoast Casino [...]

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US vs. Slovenia – World Cup 2010

Posted by Kristina If you’ve already read the blog titled, “Apartheid Museum”, then you know we’re staying in a cold house, but this morning it wasn’t a cold house, I believe, but don’t quote me, but I believe it was close to sub-zero temperatures. Ethel our host, who is a lovely woman, made an amazing [...]

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Apartheid Museum

Posted by Kristina Off we were. Our drive from Ballito to Johannesburg for the US vs. Slovenia game. We left around 8:30 and arrived around 2:30 at our hosts home. She was a wonderful woman, with two amazing German Shepards, some of the biggest I’ve seen. Only one complaint, her house was [...]

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Germany vs. Australia – World Cup 2010

Posted by Kristina After the painfully long evening and the painfully long drive, we went straight to see the painfully wonderful beating Germany would give Australia. The drive from Pretoria to Durban was about 7 hours. We stopped at one of the most fun rest stops I’ve ever been to. Check out the picture below [...]

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US vs. England – 2010 World Cup

After our night in Pretoria, which is where the US national team is based, we hit the road for Sun City. Try and follow me here. The game was in Rustenberg, but it didn’t start until 8:30pm. Pretoria was only an 1.5 hours away. So we had a ton of time to kill. We decided [...]

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Maybe the Dingo Ate Yaw Baby!

As much as we dislike and have pure disdain for the word, we have to say it, we’re “FIANCES”. Officially engaged after 7 years. Patrick proposed on the beach in Ballito Bay, South Africa! WE’RE ENGAGED! We were out running “errands”, had to go to Avis to change the contract. Patrick wanted [...]

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Bafana Bafana

Posted by Kristina Bafana Bafana! Two words we are hearing quite a bit here in South Africa, “Bafana Bafana”, it means “Go Boys Boys”. Its the name for the national South Africa soccer team. So on Friday we drove up to Pretoria to spend the night before the US game on Saturday. We wanted to get [...]

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US vs. England Hoy!

Today is the DAY! Get out to where ever you are and show your support! US vs. England Hoy! is a post from: Living in Tamarindo, Costa Rica Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Post this to MySpace Share this on Facebook Tweet This! Email this to a friend? Share [...]

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Tickets in Hand. ChaChing!

Most of you folks must be wondering what the hell we’ve been up to the last few days. Well not much other than sleeping and working. Pretty lame I know but we’re working on it. Starting with today. Eureka! We were finally able to break away for a little sight seeing and more importantly [...]

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