We had to leave Jozi early and cancel our Swaziland trip because we lost confidence in our car getting us back in time for a our flight back to the States. We started our trip back to Malawi a couple days early, which suits us because being on the open road ain't so bad.
Our objectives of the day were to watch the hyped up Portugal v. Brasil game and the Spain v. Chile late game. We found ourselves back in Polokwane, city of our first world cup game, and had a very blah experience watching the very blah Brasil/Portugal game. We rolled in right about game time so when we saw the multinational display of flags over a lodge, we quickly turned in. Although they had a nice TV and we were taught to drink our hard apple cider with lemons, we still haven't found the elusive partying Brazilians roaming WorldCupLand.
Moving on from this blah viewing experience, we hurried on to the South Africa/Zimbabwe border before the late game started. We have become very interested in the Spanish team…they got style!
We arrived at the bordertown of Musina just in time to try to find accommodations so we can watch the game. In our rush to find the game somewhere, we stumbled into this lodge thinking we've found a gold mine. We walk in to this log cabin building with a bar and a huge projection of the Spain game with lots of sound and tons of free seating. As we go up to the bar looking for registration, we find that we've stumbled into a diamond miners place. The place is rented out exclusively to the miners working in the area, but they politely allowed us to watch the game and have a drink with them. There was a very happy drunk miner who was over the moon to see us and couldn't believe we'd come to Musina all the way from California.
Dumi found us a hotel on the other side of town so at halftime we relocated our viewing over there for the second half. Over there, we strike a conversation with a local gold miner who explains to us that this is actually rugby country. Hmmm… at any rate, we ate good food and watched a wonderful display by the Spanish side.
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