Feb. 7

Feb. 6: SUPER BOWL MONDAY! First of all last night - we came back to our cabin at 9 and found out we had to turn our clocks back again and decided 8 was really too early to go to bed! SO we took our 20’s to the casino to play the slots! I lost my 20 very quickly but Ginnie kept just hanging on. UNTIL she hit a 7 with two Triple Diamonds and won 900 quarters!! WOW! It was heavy until it was turned into paper. Then of course we had to go have a celebratory drink! Now on to today. We got up early and made our terrible towels out of a stained yellow shirt! They are beautiful as you will see! We were in the bar where the game was to start at 10 by 7:15 staking out our seats. When the TV came on about 8:45 it was in Spanish - see attached picture of the screen. There were a lot of unhappy Americans come 10 when it was still in Spanish! About coin toss time we did start getting an English override but all the ads were still in Spanish! They had quite a crowd but Steeler fans were in the definite minority and we were the only ones with terrible towels! They were serving what they considered American delicacies - even POPCORN! Lunch was hot dogs and pizza and hamburgers and what they called Texas chili served with a nice little tower of rice! Because we had booked a tour on New Caledonia we had to leave with Pittsburgh ahead 21 to 10 with 6 minutes left in the game. We were glad to see that that was the final score. Supposedly we will get a rerun of the game at 5 - maybe then we can catch the end! Our tour of New Caledonia was on a petit train (like a parking lot tram) which took us around the city of Noumea and up to a nice overlook. The island is really very pretty but the town of Noumea itself is not wonderful.

LATER: We went up to have a few beers before dinner and had more than a few and decided dinner in the room was in order. It was good. All in all it has been a very good day.