The All Blacks defeated the Springboks 33-6 last Saturday. South Africa, unfortunately, only brought team with their B players, because it is a World Cup year, they didn't want their good players to get injured.
The first half was pretty boring, no tries (what we call a touchdown) just field goals (no sure what they call those). We were sitting behind an end zone, luckily it was the one the AB's we scoring in during the second half. It was quite an experience to get to sit next to some fun Kiwi blokes who knew how to cheer and heckle. Surprisingly, the wave doesn't move in the opposite direction down here, like you may think...still flows clockwise.
Some half time and second half excitement was when Phillips TV was doing a promotion by picking someone out of the crowd holding a provided sign that said "Pick Me". They picked the person at half time, but that left the rest of the people with signs...signs that could be made into large paper airplanes. And this became a show in and of itself during the second half. People from the grand stand would launch them off, and some would float out and then dive bomb onto the people below...others seem to catch an air current a glide for ages. There were moments where this was more exciting than the game, and you would here half the stadium let out a huge cheer and see that it was a paper airplane gliding really far.
The All Blacks play Australia this Saturday. A few weeks ago they lost to the Wallabies in a second half come-back. Hopefully, they can keep it together this time.
My camera has been fixed, it's in NZ, but now I'm trying to get it out of customs. Long story short, I have to provide documents showing that I exported out of the country, and then register as an importer, since I'm bringing it back into the country.
I did take one of the school camera's into the AB's game, but the batter was dead, so I only got off a few shots. Below, it's my friends from school and their girl friends, and the back side of the Haka.
