Hup Holland!

If you've been following the World Cup even a little bit, you'll know that the Dutch have made it to the semi-finals and play again today! The game starts at 8:30 pm our time and we're looking forward to them beating Uruguay :) If they make it to the finals, we expect they will be playing the Germans which, here would be a very heated match. There's been bad blood between the Dutch and the Germans ever since WWII, so I can only imagine how crazy things would get just having that match happen, but we'll see.. I'm probably getting ahead of myself. So game day.. I'm happy that the game is at night this time. I always find myself in the middle of the market or someplace downtown when the match inevitably starts and it seems like the city stops and everyone runs to the pub. (Kind of hard for me to enjoy this ritual with a baby buggy and child, but nevertheless..) All you see are people dressed head to toe in orange and crammed into these tiny pubs staring at the screens and screaming. And if you don't have the game on at home, don't worry, as you'll likely hear what's happening from the screaming in the streets, the blowing of the vulvulas, and if you're near a park like we are, you'll hear the game from a huge screen they set up so everyone can see it. It's quite amazing and as typically Dutch - very FUN! I wasn't much into soccer before we moved here, but it's tough not to catch World Cup fever. Hup Holland!