Touch Down!!! Sporting the Gold!
For those of you who don`t know... I am a huge football fan. Growing up 30 minutes South of the famous Lambeau Field, in the ¨Frozen Tundra,¨ I became a cheese head at a young age and have embraced the Green and Gold ever since! (It is nearly impossible to not love football in Wisconsin- home of the only publicly owned football team in the United States- the fans are loud, proud, and just a little bit crazy ;) )
¨Tailgating¨ Catracho Style
After finding out that the ´Empacadores´ were in the `Super Tazon`, the planning began! Last year found me watching the Super Bowl in English, on a big screen TV in the Marriott in Tegucigalpa- it was Fantastic... however, this year was a whole other ball game! A good friend`s birthday just happened to fall on Super Bowl Sunday and the day turned into a fusion of pool party and international BBQ that was quite possibily the best ¨tailgating¨ I have ever done before a game. We ate chicken prepared with a Mozambique salsa, french fries and fried plantains. YUM!
Of course no Honduran birthday party is complete without a piñata... Important Lesson: piñatas are filled with hard candies for a reason- because they are HARD. Apples and cookies are NOT good substitutes for good, old fashioned sugar!
The game was spectacular! A huge shout out to my French Canadian friends that put up with both the game and the yelling, and a shout out to companions from the US, Venezuela, Mexico, and the Ivory Coast that were yelling along... even if it was sometimes for the other team :P
While we didn`t get the US Super Bowl commercials, the Spanish game commentary more than made up for it! I learned lots of new vocab, the most used: ¨¡agarralo!¨ = ¨Get Him!!¨ It was pretty obvious that intricacies US football strategy was not our sports announcer`s specialty, but his enthusiasm for being on the field more than made up for it.
After the game, and lots of calls to Packer country, we resumed the international birthday festivities with a fabulous platano and ham lasanga and tiramisu! This will go down as one of the most memorable Super Bowl viewing experiences for the books!
¡Felicitaciones Empacadores!
GO PACK!
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