Sundays in my City!

Yesterday was the quarter final match between Germany and Argentina!! We had different plans though. I had mentioned in my post here about the onset of summer with a bang.  So we took advantage of the empty streets and empty parking lots and drove to Wuerzburg(an hours drive from home) to get what we needed.

Since our move, Media Markt has been the place where we have purchased all our electronic needs. From the home theatre to the dryer, and now this...

After having spent a sleepless night, we desperately needed fans to coolen the home. We had the store all to ourselves as everybody were engrossed in this...

This was the third goal of Deustchland and all the employees in the store were screaming!!!

More screams were to follow, and by the time we were done, Deutschland had won!! What we were to witness the next two hours was sheer madness on the streets!!! I had taken the camera along with me to take shots of the city of Wuerzburg. But look what I got! Everybody seemed to be screaming and posing to each other with a cam in their hands!!

Finale?? I thought we were moving on to semi-finale, unless he was an over confident German!

No rules, No seat belts!!! Just celebration everywhere!!!

He turned around, posed and waved his flag!!!!!!!

What do you spot there??? Nice, isn't it??

Cheers to Deutschland!!!! It was an exhilarating experience to be amongst the crowd, but too bad that we didn't have any paraphernalia with us!!! Thought a lot about putting the following picture up (and yes, he too posed with a good laugh), but couldn't resist!!! Enjoy your Sunday!!! For more Sundays around the world head over to Unknown Mami!! Its great to travel the world around with her!!!

Fussball Fieber...

Before I begin, I would like to translate the title. Fussball (pronounced foosball) stands for football and Fieber is Fever. Deutschland is reeling with the fussball fieber. Yesterday was the first match played against Australia, and as you all know by now, the germans won. I am no fan of football, will never be. The boys(hubby and son) had settled down on the couch. My man watched it the typical german way, with beer in hand!!! At half past ten, with the win of Deutschland, we retired to bed since a long week lay ahead of us.

          Nothing had prepared me for what was to happen the next two hours. Honk, Honk, Honk!!! All the cars in Lohr seemed to have gone in a honking spree to celebrate their beloved country's win of the first match. Never, ever in the past eight months had I heard a honk in Deutschland. My husband says its rude to honk. To think of it, I haven't heard the honk of our car too ( maybe for the next win, I will slip down to the garage and honk away to glory!!!) 

This reminded me so much of cricket crazy India and brought back memories of the past. We Indians celebrate a win by bursting noisy crackers, but definitely not for 2 hours!!! I remember the times when there would be these one day games and we would be hooked onto the screens. Runs of 4 or 6 would have us shrieking with delight and my mother constantly reminding us that girls voices should not be heard outside of the house. These matches would roughly end between 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. In my parents house, 8 at night is Rosary (Catholic prayers) time. Whatever we may be doing, however interesting a program on TV is, we stop our work and gather for our family prayers. During the course of the rosary, if India won the match, Nannu, our neighbour shopkeeper would begin to burst crackers. With the sound of the crackers we would triple the speed of the decade of the rosary. It would then become unbearable to listen to both the crackers and the muttering of prayers. With a hasty sign of the cross we would then dash to switch on the TV.  

As I lay in bed, I could not help but smile thinking of those days and could perfectly understand the reason for jubilation. But close to midnight, we did get fed up and was waiting for it to end. What with a sleepy boy coming to your room saying he is unable to fall asleep with all the honking!! I now fear the further matches and all the hoola it will create!! People tell me, its gonna get worse. So let me enjoy all the honking as long as it lasts, cause there wont be any for the next four years to come.

Pictured above is the lane right behind our house with flags flying high. Not only Deutschland, but also other countries. Do not ask me which countries are they.....