Super Sunday

Well isn’t LA different to Green Bay?

Kelly and I had planned to use our stopover as a way of acclimatising ourselves to the warm weather and the big city life before we got back to our own warm weather and big city life. So far the experience has been a big slap in the face.

I forgot how much traffic there is in this part of the world, how fast everybody moves, how fancy all of the suits look and how tall all of the buildings are. It was like the acclimatisation period never existed as we came to terms with everything here, not even thinking about everything there in the next few days.

So far as our day today – this morning we had brunch (so LA isn’t it) with our friends Andrea and Willie - the picture is us at the greocery store beforehand. That was cool ‘cause they have two little ones for the boys to play with. Plus the weather was great, they have a courtyard to ride bikes around and they’re not far from our hotel.

We were back in the early afternoon, just in time for me to head downstairs to see the Superbowl. I wasn’t really rooting for either team to be honest. I was happy for the Patriots to win because they have easily been the superior team all season. I was equally happy for the Giants to win ‘cause they have easily been the superior team over the last 4 weeks.

In the end, watching Eli evade the pass rush and heave that ball to David Tyree with 90 seconds to go was awesome. C’mon, even as Packers fans you have to agree, that was a great play. The 30 odd strong crowd here went totally nuts and rightfully so.

We had a quiet night after that, making sure the boys weren’t too worked up before our flight on Tuesday.

On a side note, having never seen the big game with all of the ads included (our Australian coverage cuts to guys in the studio talking about the game) I have to say the ads weren’t everything I expected. Some were great, some were just plain average. My favourite came in the 4th quarter. It was a baby, in front of his computer selling a stock trading account known as E*Trade. Not the one where he throws up, the other one, where he comments on hiring a clown with his profits and quotes “I underestimated the creepiness”. Ha, so true!