Tumble weeds and dust roll across empty streets and in my mind I can almost hear the old wild west song "da na na na na" as all I see is empty streets....everyone's inside...waiting in anticipation for...The world cup! Really its not that extreme but almost. The world cup in South America is nothing like the US. People care, I mean really care. Its a months worth of soccer, soccer and more soccer. Soccer is probably one of Jenn's least favorite activities, but as for the rest of the house, ahem, world...its fantastic.
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The giant screens at all the malls
showing games on rotation. |
The day before the first world cup game, the boys had their "Father's day show" (every mothers day, fathers day and Christmas all schools put on shows for their parents). Traditionally, these shows contain our kiddos dancing up in tradition Peruvian attire or cool grease themed costumes, but this Fathers day was different. The boys' school, in all of its awesomeness, but on a "World Cup" themed show. A little dancing, sports playing, FIFA mascott and mock world cup trophey summed up the event. The boys were given soccer jerseys with each child adorning a different teams jersey, representing one of the teams in the in World Cup. Eli was given Germany and Ro was given Argentina. Perfect prediction. Perfectly fun.
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| Ro wearing Argentina & Eli wearing Germany |
Opening day our kids were out of school and it sort of felt like Thanksgiving was upon us. Food was cooking all day in the kitchen, kids out of school in sheer glee and the anticipation of friends coming over hung in the air.
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| This is how we watch! |
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| They won!!! |
Although, we stayed busy the month of soccer was fun. Our boys wore the final two teams jerseys, brackets were created and bets were made. Ultimately the Ruiz family prevailed and won and lots time spent with friends made for a pretty incredible month.
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| They may be opposing teams but they are best of friends!!! |
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