ALL BLACKS!!!!!!!!!!

So my two greatest goals in coming to New Zealand have been successfully fulfilled as of yesterday night!! The All Blacks, New Zealand's Rugby team and a source of national pride, played the Australian Wallabies (BOO) in Wellington. Being in the capital has its perks!

Friends from Canterbury and Dunedin came up to enjoy the game. Wellington EXPLODED. 

There were floods of people, all wearing black.. kinda looked like a really big funeral. But the All Blacks are INCREDIBLE. And we KILLED those stinky Wallabies.. Anhilated them. 

We won 33 to 6. And they had 6 points because they got 2 penalties--they didn't even score! Our boys creamed them and it was glorious. 

I have never screamed so much in my life. And we were pretty close: it was weird being SO close to these super famous players. 

The game is made that much better by the Australian-New Zealand rivalry that's always there! We got the opportunity to sit in front of this huge Wallabies fan section... so when it was clear we had won, at 26 and 6, we turned around and told them all to go home. Little did we know that in the last 5 minutes we would score AGAIN. Epic!! 

The Haka live... is... wow. It's incredible. Try imagining like 20 HUGE rugby players, as serious about the game as you can get, yelling in Maori at you, with all these war moves...Youtube it. All Blacks Haka. It's serious. 

Here's my favorite player...team captain Richie McCaw:: imagine this dude running at you and try to tell me you wouldn't pee your pants a little bit...

Richie McCaw--#7

But when he isn't eating Wallabies for dinner and is not bleeding and being intimidating, I've got to say, God did a GOOOOOD job when He made Richie. :D