july 3rd

another beautiful day here, even more than normal since the family arrived today. we started the day by playing our daily match, then went early to patrick's to get a good spot for the game. we watched deutschland beat argentina 4-0 with a bunch of flintsbach locals, drinking beer and eating grilled meats with bread. here a video of the environment after the 2nd goal:

we came back after the game to play a quick game of cribbage, then both cleaned up to meet the rest at the train station. they arrived just in time to drop their stuff off in the room and get to the first half of the spain/paraguay game. after brent had a couple quick beers, we came back home at halftime and the lovely fräulein who runs the place made us a great dinner.