Eu sou de America!!

AHH!!

I just came back from going to a bar with some friends in Porto da Barra to watch the USA-vs.-Brazil futebol (pronounced foo-chee-bol! yay!) game, and... ahh!! I can`t believe we lost!!

My friends and I started searching for bars around 3:45 or so (the game started here at 3:30), but many bars were crowded... so we headed towards the beach, since there`s always bars around there. On the way, we passed by this EMPTY Subway (yes, Subway has infiltrated the streets of Brazil, too, haha!) and the employees inside were watching the futebol game, so we peeked through the window to see the TV screen and.... the US JUST SCORED it`s FIRST GOAL!! We were SO excited, but, I think that the Subway employees realized that we were Americans, were very bitter, and just turned OFF the TV! We kind of joked around, saying that they`d probably keep on the TV if we bought a stupid sandwich, but.. oh well! We moved on...

After disputing which bar would be better (based off of how many fans were there, beer price and TV screen size, haha!) we settled on a pretty good bar that was on/closer to the coast, semi-outside.. nice breeze, good! We had to move the tables a bit to get a good view, and of COURSE, there was a Brazilian whose head was party in the way, but.. hey! That`s the experience of watching futebol in a Brazilian bar, right??
Anyways. Some people got their Skols, Bohemes, meat appetizer with cheese+ yucca (three food groups that are pretty Brazilian, hehe)... and we were all set to watch, what of course but.. the US goalie save some pretty sweet goals (including that one that was CRAZY and basically went inside the goal, but didn`t touch past the goal line, so didn`t end up counting?!? woo hoo!)... and the US score the SECOND GOAAAL!! oh yeah!! We were a bit worried at first about how excited/loud we should be when cheering on the US (afterall, we didn`t want to be the next thing served at a Brazilian barbeque restaurant..) , but, we were fine, haha!

So. Halftime came, and we were pretty confident. Afterall, US-Brazil was 2-0!! YAYA! So, I was pretty happy, decided to order myself a Caipirinha (which was STRONG, btw.. and I`m still feeling it, after 4 hours and muita comida... I`m SO glad I ordered just one!), but.. what was with the US?!?! That was just... AH! The US performance was just... not that elegant looking at all, after half time, and the Brazil team probably finally lost its arrogance, so... let us just keep the bad news to a minimum and say that it was a pretty SAD ENDING, and... We paid our bill RIGHT after the game was over. The waiters knew that we were American, and had been standing by/watching us the whole game, but... as we were leaving, I saw our main waiter kind of smile/smirk at me, so I just kind of waived at him goodbye, accepting the loss.

Anyways. Right now, there are firecrackers going off like BOMBS, AGAIN. These firecrackers just never seem to stop! Pre São João firecrackers last week, for the actual São João festival day, leftovers from São João for a couple days, then firecrackers for the futebol game, TODAY!

The festivities are ENDLESS. Que bom!