World Cup Fever

We’re very sad to say that the Dutch didn’t win the World Cup tonight, although it was very close.  Everyone here has been so excited about the world cup that the whole country has turned orange.  Most of the frosting in the bakeries is orange, houses are decked in orange flags, fountains have orange water in them and people are wearing all sorts of orange clothes.   We have a new orange soccer ball.  The big plaza in the center of Eindhoven by the train station was all set up for a huge outdoor screening of the game with giant tvs and a big bar.   The train stations in Den Bosch, Utrecht and Den Haag were full of people wearing orange and blowing orange horns.

The game was on past our bedtime but Daddy woke us up for what should have been the last 15 minutes of the game.  It went into a 30 minute overtime, so we got to see a lot of it.

World Cup Fever in the Piskie Home