one day to go... can you feel it!?!

I live right next to the party engen (capetonians will know what i am talking about – its a 24hr engen petrol station with a woollies food, quick shop and various fast food options – very popular at 4am just after all the clubs and bars close... its where the party continues) its also on a major intersection / traffic light. Yesterday morning we woke up to the sound of vuvuzelas, cars hooting and people screaming like excited school girls – for 2 hours during peak morning traffic this went on non stop! The energy and atmosphere is amazing.

I went for a walk around town to soak it up (and to buy my bafana shirt!) and it seems like every street vendor have exchanged their usual merchandise for flags, scarves and soccer merch.

Ever second car and human being has a SA flag proudly waving

and there are hoards of tourists in the gardens. (mostly Italians – mostly old - boring...)

Six years of planning, marketing and building has boiled down to this moment, and to tell you the truth I don’t want to be anywhere else in the WORLD right now. The weather in Cape Town is AMAzing and the spirit and fever even better.

I am a very active member of couchsurfing, and the german girl who stayed with me a few weeks ago kept telling me how jealous she is, how the spirit and atmosphere would blow us away, how she wished she would be here for it... NOW i understand what she meant. Now i feel it.

You know something big is happening when they switch the lights on to illuminate the mountain at night. Last night we sat on his couch in his flat on the 16^th floor of a tampon tower, facing the mountain, soaking it up while we watched the kick off celebrations live from Soweto, we listened to Sepp thank us and Jacob basically beg us not to rob the tourists and turned the sound down when the black eyed pees started to tell us that tonight was gonna be a good night... We kept an eye on the rest of the concert and turned the sound back on when we needed to figure out if that strange lil blond girl in the grass skirt and zebra (i am guessing) inspired leotard really was shakira (herman: what is she, my brain cannot process this human being... what is that?)

This morning saw the same chaos at my local traffic light, even bIGGER, and i found out it was the DA peoples, showing provincial government is also behind out boys...

every status on my facebook home page is something to do with the world cup, the bafana boys or the atmosphere of being proudly South African...

The day is here, the time is now... Can you FEEL IT?

Welcome to Cape Town – the city by the seaside, put on your dancing shoes – cape town welcomes YOU!

Let the games begin!