Monday morning we all got up early (ok, some of us earlier than others) to go to the Vizcaya Club house to see the SuperBowl. The party started at 7:00 a.m. They had a breakfast buffet and a Bloody Mary bar, but I will come back to that in a minute... Tom had volunteered to run the "gambling" for the game, he was up pretty late Sunday preparing a large paper with lots of boxes. You know, you pick a square and put your name in it, then he filled in the rows and columns with numbers. At the end of each quarter, the person whose name was in the square with the last digits of the score for each team won some money. He did a good job, of course! Kids won three of the payouts though. It was a different mix of fans I guess.
So it was interesting to see that there were a few die-hard Pats or Giants Fans, but for the most part it appeared that most attendees where just football fans. I would observe though that American's tend to not be as "outgoing" about wanting to know who all the other American's were at the Party. Obviously we knew quite a few people, but rarely did anyone approach to introduce themselves and find out where we were from. It is a major indicator of our American culture, the country of the Individual. Frankly I am not sure that other Americans's are all that intersted in knowing you just because you are American. Contrast that to Europeans and you see a major difference in how we integrate into another culture.
Oh, and one word on the inability of the Chinese to make a bloody mary. Anyone who knows me will tell you that it is one of my favorite drinks (especially if I am forced to drink before noon!) The tomato juice here is not useful in making them. The juice is sweetened and also very watery, so the texture of the drink is just not right. Also, these bloody mary's had a topping of tomato juice foam on the tom, caused I assume by the shaking of the drinks prior to putting into the glasses. So the drinks are bascially juice and vodka. And I am not sure that there was even real vodka in these. So alas, there are no good stories to tell about anyone at the party who drank too much! Ok, I feel better...
The broadcast we watched was on a satellite feed from Malaysia. So, we missed all of the commercials, which frankly was nice. Though we were able to see the same two commercials for "Alaska brand powdered milk" and JVC. I bet no one in the U.S. saw a commercial for powdered milk! And we got to see the whole half time show. Wow, Tom Petty is old, isn't he? Which means I am old... Natalie had met a friend from kindergarten at the party so she and the little girl's older sister played together most of the game. There were quite a few kids as most of the schools are out this week. Overall it was nice outing. And then we headed back home ate lunch and Tom headed back to work...
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