A Message from Craig:
So yesterday was the biggest ordeal getting tickets, but it all worked out, thank god. They only have a couple outlets where you can pick up your tickets and the one at the airport had this extraordinarily long line (which I probably should have used anyway), so we went to the pickup spot in Pretoria. We ended up having to wait in line for 2 hours because their atm-like terminals were all down (imagine that in africa).
Getting my tickets was easy because I just handed them my credit card and my id, and got the tickets, but the USA v England tix were the more difficult ones, as we had Rob's credit card, but not his ID. Travis pretended to be Rob, and said that he didn't have his ID because the directions said all you needed was the credit card (which they did), so we argued with the guy, and then he went and got his manager, but that didn't work, so I had the realization that I had my ID and my name was for one of the tickets, so I gave them my ID, the manager went back and checked and since everything checked out with me, they printed out the tickets for us. I was going to freak out if we couldn't get those tickets!
Anyway, it's crazy here. Travis heard his first vuvuzela at 5:30, but I wasn't woken up until 7:30. And we're not even downtown. When we get off the internet here, we're going to go to downtown Pretoria and watch the opening ceremonies and the games there. I'm so freaking excited. Everyone here is so super nice to us. They, as a country, are just as excited as we are. Tomorrow we're going to drive out to Rustenburg early and spend the whole day at the stadium. The tickets for the USA v England game are pretty damn good. We're about half way up, right at midfield in the USSF section. Look for us. I've got Charlie Davies 9's that I will be holding up at the 9th minute. As for today, maybe one of the bars will have WiFi, though I haven't found any wifi in this country yet, so I can chat in real time on my iphone. Either way, go Bafana Bafana!