Happy late wedding day, Bryan Higginbotham and Laura Bottoms!
Happy late wedding day, Alicia Cooper and Rick Godfrey!
It’s Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday night’s alright! It’s time to kick it off between the hedges in … Cape Town (not Athens). I’ve gone stir crazy without Braves baseball and Georgia football. Best solution? Cape Town Stormers verses Johannesburg Blue Bulls rugby match! Ecstatic about today’s match, we all bought Cape Town Stormers’ jerseys in an attempt to blend in with the masses. Just to top off our team spirit, we painted our faces Braveheart style on our way to the Stormers’ DNL Newlands stadium. As we filed out of the buses displaying our spirit, we followed our adventure tour guide Gavin to our tailgating site. While the locals still tailgate prior to big games such as this one, they do not know how to do it SEC style. Gavin and his friends hosted a scrumptious brai, or South African BBQ, with hot dogs and other tasty goodies. For a few hours, we held an off-season tailgate party while bonding as a whole group. Good times.
GAMETIME! You have no idea how excited I was to say, “It’s Gameday!” to every person I came in contact with this afternoon. As we walked towards the stadium, we naturally began calling the dogs and singing, “Who’s that Coming Down the Track?” Sorry, we were alittle obnoxious, but we all miss football season. (84 days!) At least, we saved the South African people from hearing the Tennessee students sing “Rocky Top!”
When the game began, we spread ourselves throughout the standing room only section in one of the end zones. Within the first few minutes, we some how maneuvered our way down to the first two or three rows in the stadium. I think it’s safe to say the Americans were mesmerized by the game. Most of us had no clue how to play the game, but the energy of the crowd still allowed us to blend in as true fans. If you didn’t know, rugby is no cup of tea. The players’ intensity and lack of padding makes football look like a little girls powder puff game. Our jaws dropped at the size of their thighs and the intensity of their slide tackles. Sadly, our die-hard Stormers lost this intense match but made an incredible come back at the end. Good news? They passed out free tangerines after the game, and for those of you who assumed, I did not pout because we lost! It’s the little things in life.
Picture: (From back left) Taylor (Georgia), me, (front left) Amy Morgan (Wake Forest), Laura (Wake Forest), Anna Lynn (Georgia)
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