Super Bowl Sunday
February 4th, 2007
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After our move to The Point yesterday, we immediately scouted out a place to watch the Super Bowl. The place we found is actually connected to our new hostel, Casa del Sol, and has breathtaking views of the beach from the bar, where you can actually walk right into the ocean (see pic).
The owner of the bar is a burly guy from Philadelphia named Mike. He owns the bar with his Ecuadorian wife who is at least 15 years his junior. Mike is probably 6’ tall, weighing in at close to 225, which might have been muscle at some point in his life, back in the football playing days. Mike and his wife permanently relocated from Philadelphia to Ecuador in November after the loss of his father. At least this is what we gathered from our conversations with Mike.
We started the pre-game festivities by watching “Invincible” with Mike. He was really pumped up since the story is about a guy, played by Marky Mark, who tried out for the Philadelphia Eagles in an open tryout and made the team. Mike made it clear he is a die hard Philly fan since that is the way he was born. He didn’t really care who won the Super Bowl, as long as it was a good game.
We quickly slipped from the movie to the pre-game show which was all in Spanish. We had a few minutes of hysteria until the game came on and we determined it was in English. Others trickled into the bar, mostly Americans, but nobody really cared about the outcome. Everyone was just looking for something to do until it was time to surf again.
We had the standard football pool where everyone picked their squares. We weren’t big winners there, but we did enjoy watching the game. We have only been gone one week, but it was nice to have something familiar on a Sunday night. There is nothing more familiar than good old fashioned football, hot dogs, beer and potato chips.
