Italy vs Uruguay

Today we have an early game in Natal. We had breakfast (cafe' de manha) at the Tribus Bar/Cafe which as usual was delicious. There we talked to be owner (Marcia) again for a long time. She speaks many languages including perfect English. She never fails to keep us informed and laughing. We completed the trade of our USA flag for Brazil Tribus Bar shirts. She is very excited to hang the flag in the cozy bar.

Traffic was a lot tougher on this trip to Natal, because we were traveling much closer to game time.  We eventually made it to our seats about 5 minutes before game time, but we didn't even have a beer in hand!

Our seat neighbors were a great Brazilian couple named Narim and Karina.  They spoke almost exactly as much English as we spoke Portuguese, so we had a grand time trying to talk about anything and everything.  So much so, that we didn't even notice when Suarez bit the Italian defender.  We did see him running around with his shirt pulled down, but just figured it was more Italian theatrics.

After the match, Jon won the right to marry Ms. Brazil.  We're not really sure about the legality of this, but they seem happy.

Getting home was fairly straight forward.  Jon had a good clean run on the Goaninha to Pipa driving game.