hey guys!!
two sundays ago i went to my first professional futbol game here! Atletico de Madrid v. Sporting in Vicente Calderon stadium. El atleti won 3-1, but apparently the game before they lost 5-1 to a pretty bad team and the fans were pretty upset, telling the owner to get out and the players that they dont deserve to wear those jerseys. One thing that sucks is that they dont really have like replays or announcers or anything (at least not in this stadium) and another thing is they don't serve alcohol! lame! but that's probably because of the crazy fans, the ultras, that travel to all of the teams games and have cheers, flags, noisemakers, and are standing the whole game, pretty much like a college football game. Of course the ultras from the other team are there and a fight usually breaks out at some point. The whole 90 min thing is nice though. I'm used to three and a half hour baseball games and 4 hour football games, so it seemed to fly by and its not something your day has to revolve around. Walking to the stadium it was just like going to a baseball game: people selling snacks and game gear and people drinking at the surrounding bars. The game is pretty much what you expect. They fall down all the time and spend more time on their hair than I do!
Then that Thursday night was a festival in Toledo called el valle which consists in all the young people going to a campground that overlooks Toledo (soooo beautiful at night) setting up tents and drinking until the next day. That was so fun! All of Janos friends from school and from Toledo were there so we had a bunch of people. However I had to get up and leave at 630 the next morning to get to the airport and go to Mexico!
First of all the swine flu is really inconvenient and I hate it. Other than that the trip was amazing! My cousin Buddy (Vince III) got married to his girlfriend of 8 years on the beach and it was really small, 20 guests and 6 in the wedding party. I got a manicure and a pedicure and two massages and some sun! Im kind of tanner/redder. It was sooo nice to see my family. Jimmy and I shared a room and it was just like old times! We had a lot of good drunken memories! At the reception they had a mariachi band and a donkey and its caretaker that carried around beer. My cousin Ryan (the grooms brother) also gave an amazing best man speech! I was tearung up!
Right now Im in the process of having to wear a facemask when Im with Jano..sucks...but Sunday is tennis and Im not wearing one.
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