Update from the Dominican - Part Two

This is your intrepid World Cup reporter, Bigger Than Al, checking in from the Dominican Republic.

 

Once again sitting in the lounge of the Bahia Principe Bavarro waiting for the bar to open at 10 am in 6 minutes.  The high speed internet connection seems to be marginally better than yesterday and I am able to watch the Australia v Snotland game in 15 second snippets.

 

My Google search page has now brilliantly reconfigured itself to Spanish and every time I type www.google.ca, I get www.google.com.pr.  If I was in Puerto Rico that would seem logical, but since I'm in the DR and speak about as much Spanish as Snotland will get wickets today - I don't find that particularly helpful

 

Not so many Dominicans are crowding around my laptop today.  Yesterday there was one. Also yesterday one of the waiters stopped by while I was watching a 14 second snippet of the WI v Cheetahs match. He asked what I was watching and I told him it was baseball for people with brains. He then walked off to open up his Sammy Sosa shop to the Barry Bonds family who were arriving for a surprise visit.

 

I am getting worried about my options for the big game on Friday.  The high speed internet here is clearly not and the proxy server at the University of Newcastle doesn't seem to allow me to listen to TMS.  So that leaves the bloody beach, the bloody pool and bloody drinks that are even weaker than the 150 Rum & Cokes that one Monkey Butler consumed on the Sunday of the Barbados Test three years ago. Otherwise the trip is a lot of fun.  Now a bloomin' Tour Group has sat down at the table next to me, again they all appear to be from Quebec with the tour guide speaking French in a weird Spanish accent.

 

Everyone here seems to be from Canada except for the Quebeckers and the Americans. And nobody seems to care a toss about what the ICC has done to the USA or that Canada are 40-1 after 10.3 overs.

 

Anyway enough from me as I am just about ready to watch another 15 second clip of Big Toe and Big Ears making Snotland feel like they are back in the 1978 FIFA World Cup Finals.

 

Only 16 days to go until the Monkey Butler reunion and despite everything that is going on here, I am getting very excited.