Well last night was awesome!

I was excited all day at work.

I went and got changed at about 5.15pm so I could leave right on 5.30pm.
Caught the train to Hammersmith and the bus to Shepherds Bush.

Got to the Walkie and found our group.
The Walkabout was packed
and no one even looked twice at me dressed in my bright yellow shirt, aussie hat and scarf and wearning my Australian flag as a cape!
I wasn't the only one!
We had a few beers and headed down to the Staduim.

It was only about a 10 minute walk but if you didn't know where to go you just had to follow the crowd - the streets were overflowing!

We were so close to the game and had really good seats about 7 rows back right in the middle of the Fanatics area.

The teams were warming up but it was a bit dark to get any good team photos.
The teams ran out and there was a really loud cheer.

They did the South Africa National Anthem first and then ours.
It is really cool to have everyone sing as loud as they can.

The game started and there was a guy in front of us with a trumpet and he was playing Waltzing Matilda and the anthem and we were all singing and then we scored!
Yay!
Then the trumpet guy got ejected just for playing his horn.
They eventually let him back in but kept his trumpet...not very nice.
But we did let them have it by singing "You are a wanker" and "You fat bastard" - like you hear on the cricket but you can't always hear what they are saying on the telly!
Very funny.

We sang and cheered and were basically patriotic yobbos!

The game was just like you see on the TV
and everytime we got close to scoring again we all stood up and then there was a big "Awww" when we missed!
There was lots of cheering when the Sth African's missed too - yes Mum, we are bad sports!

Harry Kewell is mighty fine close up and Mark Viduka is not bad either - a bit of square face but I could handle that.
They went off about 10 minutes into the second half.

After the game finished the team came down to our end and gave us a big cheer/clap
and then we headed back to the Walkabout.

I walked in and walked straight out again - far too packed...

I ran into Tamara and Jonathon outside and we walked home...it only took about 20 minutes.
Jonathon was quite excited that we were walking over the Thames - he is like me and still walks around with a grin on his face giggling to himself that he is in London!

Tamara went home and Johathon and I went to the Porterhouse for a pint.

Then it was home to bed.

A lot of people thanked me for organising the night last night and I even got two emails saying what a good night they had...
It was nice and I am glad it all came off.

It was such fun.

Anyway...gonna list my photos tonight and probably send them on the weekend...

Tanya.