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| The OOO AAH part of our group |
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| We were in a fairly kiwi dominated area - but there weren't many of us really. About 1 in 7 they say |
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| The crowd was amazing |
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| Justine, Sian and Scotty |
I enjoyed
the game, which was nail-bitingly close from start to finish. We won 26-25 –
too close for comfort! It was then back out into the cold and into the first
pub we came across, where we spent the rest of the night. It was a great night;
I even met an old babysitter of mine! Quite surreal. The only gripe I have about Cardiff is the distinct lack of taxis and taxi ranks, and it took us TWO
HOURS to find a cab to take us back to the hotel. By 4am the nine or ten pints I’d drunk we no longer keeping me warm and I was starting
to get a little grumpy…
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| Me and my alleged babysitter |
But I felt
much better in the morning when I found out how sick everyone else was feeling! It
was certainly a big night for everyone and Cardiff must have sold a fair few drinks to celebrating kiwis. We did very little but sit for the rest of the day – first in a pub for lunch and then on the train,
getting home at a respectable 6pm. And Mikey had even cooked a superb roast dinner which was just what I needed!
An international game like this one is a perfect example of why
we need to change our flag: New Zealand supporters don't wear the red, white and blue of our flag - we wear black!
A few waved our union-based flag, but far more waved silver fern flags. Click here to go to nzflag.com and register your support. They're trying to get a referendum set up next year so that New Zealanders can vote on whether
to change the flag.
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