India vs Pakistan

We attended our first Cricket game on Saturday. Some of Brian's co-workers met us there and we exprienced India's national pastime. It's a little like baseball but a little more boring:D We sat in a section where the official "cheerleader" of Pakistan was sitting. He's gone to every game the last 19 years, following the Pakistani team all over the world. This made for fun rivalry yelling and true Indian spirit. The Pakistani team pays him ($160 a month) to go and mingle among the crowd and get them fired up. He's called the Cricket ChaCha (Uncle) and even has full color business cards he hands out:) The TV camera also came by to film the ChaCha with the indian fans. We made our debut on national indian television:) I think the cameraman stayed on Kai for 5 minutes:) (the white baby is a celebrity everywhere we go:D)

Also in the pictures you'll notice the white plastic chairs as stadium seats. We thought this was great...India is known for these plastic chairs everywhere...restaurants, doctors offices, churches...so it was very fitting that the stadium would use these as well, including color coded sections...red chairs in one section, blue chairs in another section, the white section (where we were sitting). Wearing light blue--India's color

This particular game was lasting for 5 days in Bangalore. We saw day one. At the end of the 5th day whoever has the most scores wins. Brutal:) There are also games that last 2 days, one day and 2 hours. Cricket is "THE" sport in India and sadly enough the only one you can watch on tv besides soccer on Sat/Sun nights.