Game Day

(James here, Rich is tired of typing so I’m going to finish up)

Game Day!

Saturday we woke up a bit rough around the edges trying to shed the last bit of Irie Lime from our broken bodies, and too much dismay we had no breakfast in the house! We packed up or supporters tools and went to get a taxi, outside the gate we found some other residents of gateway and we all decided to share a taxi to town. Arriving in town we had hoped to get some breakfast but were not dropped near any of the normal shops so we went straight to the stadium. Arriving at the grass we found way to many Aussies for our liking and after scanning the crowds we found some other South Africans to sit with. You all watched the game so you know how it went, the men in yellow scored a very respectable total and we failed to match it. We had an excellent start to the game but in my opinion it was as a result of a stupid run out and an injured opening batsman, that we failed to win. Oh and Kallis thought he was playing a Test Match by comparison to the other guys.

Not to worry we will meet again and I’m sure we will prevail!

We drank water and Gatorade (Energade) all day, not on single alcoholic drink! We were sweltering in the heat, I don’t know how hot it was but we were in direct sun ALL DAY, the queue to the bar was ridiculous, and through out the day at various times they ran out of water, beer, rum, Gatorade, basically everything they were stocking they ran out of and had to wait before more stock arrived from other bars in the stadium. As you can imagine this upset people after waiting to get to the front of the queue only to find out the drink they wanted had just run out! If you are ever in the Caribbean don’t ever expect a local to wait his turn in the queue, they push till they get to the front or just shout from the back to the bar lady “Sweetheart! Hey! Sweetheart! Get me a Carib! (beer)” I wont even mention the food queue, all I will say is that we did not bother with it and went to buy food at another counter outside of the Party Stand. But aside from the lack of service it was a good day at the cricket but it would have been even better if we could have rubbed a win in the Aussie fans faces!

When the game ended we decided to go back to the hotel and shower before heading out to the bar and drowning our sorrows! We were covered in a slimy layer of sweat, sun cream and dust, so a shower was needed!

We decided to go the Holland House (just for a change!) it was disappointingly deserted but we bumped into Brian (another South African we knew) so we got a taxi down to Frigate Bay beach to see if any of the beach bars were busier. We started at the Shiggidy Shack with a rum and coke, it was still mostly full of dinners so we walked down the beach and settled at Ziggys Bar, honestly we really wanted to have power for a decent night out but the rums were going down with barbs!

It slowly started to get busier but we were not feeling it and most of the beach bars had too many loud drunk Aussies in them, pity, because loud drunk South Africans would have been better! We decided to call it a night at about 23:00.