Fútbol!

I've actually had these photos for a while because we went to this game our second week here, but I forgot about them until now.  Anyway, soccer (as you might imagine) is a pretty big thing here.  Every town has its own soccer team and the fans are very very serious about theirs.  Because we live in Heredia, we went to this game of Heredia vs Saprisa and cheered for the little men in yellow.

Waiting for the bus to get to the game.  Tyler is blurry because he was bouncing up and down.

Sitting in the stands in our yellow Heredia jerseys - we were pretty stoked.

Outside the stadium they gave everyone these blow-up clapper things.  Kölbi is the Costa Rican equivalent of Apple, so the whole thing was a big product placement stunt, but we didn't care because it was so fun to hit people on the head with them...

Me, Nikki, Molly, and Christi

Players warming up...

While the players were getting ready, we opted to move from one corner of the stadium to the other so that we would have a better view of the goals.  Because of this move, we were right on the edge of the Heredia half of the stadium.  There was this big fence separating us from the Saprisa fans, which we all thought was very funny and unnecessary until...

...the Saprisa fans showed up and turned out to be VERY enthusiastic about their chants.

These guys climbed up on the fence until some security guards showed up and made them get down.  They never stopped chanting for the entire game.

Saprisa in white and maroon.

Heredia in yellow and red.

The game ended up tied 2-2 but we were losing for quite a while, so we were just glad not to lose.  The game was a lot of fun and the enthusiasm of both sides was quite a ... cultural experience for us...  I'm just glad we survived.