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WBC Championship Game

Wednesday was the last game of the WBC here in Puerto Rico. The teams now move on to Miami, FL to continue on to the next round. Puerto Rico beat the Netherlands yet again, but the Netherlands will still advance. The Netherlands surprised us all as the "Cinderella team" of the tournament.

The atmosphere at the game was so crazy. We had a blast. We were even lucky enough for a camera man to stand right in front of us and Matthew appeared on ESPN. The channel aired the highlights of the game on Wednesday night and Thursday morning on ESPN Sportscenter and you could see Matthew cheering in the crowd. We've been getting phone calls from friends and family telling us they saw him on television. Too bad we don't have cable, we didn't get a chance to see him, but at least we know he was on there.

A few pictures of us were also on El Nuevo Dia (http://especiales.elnuevodia.com/clasicobeisbol/default.aspx?G=03-07-2009), a Puerto Rican news paper. These are the pictures from the website they allow you to download them on to your computer. One is a group picture of all of us on March 7th.

...and this picture was on March 11th the final game, we had just crossed the street to get into the stadium and a Nuevo Dia photographer snapped a picture of us.

As soon as we walked into the stadium we were bombarded by a bunch of people handing out free stuff, Matthew even got a free water bottle, when vendors inside were selling them for $3. I got that shirt at the game, it was thrown right above my head, but the guy behind me accidentally dropped it and it fell behind my chair. I quickly snatched it from the ground and kept it.

This was another picture from the newspaper website:

ESPN sports analyst Steve Phillips was at the game, I couldn't get a very good picture but here he is:

this is a better picture of him from the ESPN website:

...more pictures of the game:


Puertorican Team

Some of Puerto Rico's most popular players (at least that I recognized):
Carlos Delgado (plays for the Mets)

Carlos Beltran (also plays for the Mets)

Ivan Rodriguez (played catcher for the yankees)

The bases are loaded here for Puerto Rico to score

Puerto Rico wins, the fans go crazy!

and we got fireworks, it was the perfect way to end the night.

Did Anyone Feel that Earthquake?

There was an earthquake about a minute ago March 11, 2009 at 10:06pm in Puerto Rico. I felt it as I was blogging and I'm wondering if anyone else felt it. Freaky. I live on the 4th floor and I could feel the apartment swaying back and forth. This is the third earthquake I have been in since I moved here, what is going on? I thought I was clear of any earthquakes since getting out of California. I guess not. I'll have to check the news.

'09 World Baseball Classic

It's finally here!

I've been waiting for the world baseball classic to begin. I've grown to love baseball with Matthew, it's his favorite sport, but I only get excited when it's a big game like this one. This is the outside of the stadium while we waited.

We went last year and we had a blast. This year we bought tickets for the very first game (Dominican Republic vs. Netherlands). We sat at the bleachers for the first game, but got really good seats. The stadium is pretty small, so really every seat is good.

Kristen and me

The boys. Stacey, this is for you. He might have been on the phone with you in this picture. LOL.

About 10 minutes into the game more of our friends showed up. Brianna and Julia, and Me and Kristen in the back. We had a good time and the weather was perfect, glad it didn't rain.

The boys were really into the game here.

We also got tickets for the very last game. I'm hoping it will be Dominican Republic vs. Puerto Rico, that should be interesting.
In the game we saw on Saturday, the Dominicans lost against the Netherlands 3 to 2. I coudn't believe it, but the Dominicans were playing really crappy. Matthew and I were rooting for them because that's where he served his mission. What really messed them up was their first picther. He let 3 runs get past him. Needless to say, they had the rest of the game to catch up and they only scored 2 runs. Oh well, at least they're still in the game. Last I heard they beat Panama 9 to 0, so I guess they learned their lesson.
David Ortiz at bat (a.k.a "Big Papi") one of the few players that I actually recognized from the Dominican team.


I was so dissapointed that Vladimir Guerrero didn't play this year.

It was a busy Saturday, later that evening we spent time with the Paige Family. President Paige is our stake president here in Puerto Rico. Him and his wife Cuqui invited us over for dinner and a Rock Band session. You know you have an awesome Stake Pres. when he's a fan of Rock Band.


We had so much fun. Thanks for a fun night Cuqui. We have to get together again.

Salami Induveca

Ever since Matthew left his mission in the Dominican Republic he has been raving about this Salami that he used to eat on his mission. Salami Induveca.

He had it once on his mission and couldn't get enough after that. We have tried to look for this Salami here in Puerto Rico and have had no luck...until about a week ago. We were actually just taking a friend home and we stopped by this little Econo to pick up some groceries. Matthew eyed the salami and went crazy and even called a buddy from the mission just to tell him he found Salami Induveca. I know this sounds insane, he's completely obsessed with this salami. Well, I got to say it's very good and I can see why he craves it so much.
He then begged me to try to make him some of the different foods he used to eat with this salami. It is mostly eaten during breakfast and I said I would try. One of the meals (or really this is a snack) consists of a tostone with a slice of fried salami on top and then dipped in ketuchup. I wish you could have seen the glee when he took that first bite. He was even anxious to help me cook and he never does that, just so I can get it right. I have to admit it was pretty tasty...but very fattening, like everything good is. I also made him "salami guisado" which is salami cooked in this tomatoe sauce, then poured over yucca and a fried egg on the side (see below). He said if I could make this dish he would marry me again. I took up the challenge and replicated the dish. He said it tasted just like the salami gisado he had in the Dominican Republic. Aren't I a lucky gal? He's just lucky I know a few things about cooking!

Before...

...and After

Ok, but I have to tell you the story before he got his nicely shaved head. Matthew came home Monday complaining how hot it was at his clinic. For some reason the AC fails to work every so often and when it's broken he sweats like crazy because he has to wear his collar shirt and white coat when treating patients. Anway, so he comes home with the decision to shave his head. I was a little worried, actually very worried, I've never seen him with his head shaved. But he was persistent and insisted that I shave his head. But get this, all he had was a cheap little electric razor for facial hair. I was like ok, I don't think this will work. First of all his hair is so thick and second of all that little razor doesn't have much of a battery life. But he kept on insisting, so I started shaving his head, everthing was going fine until the razor ran out of batteries! Of course, Matthew said, "no problem, just plug it in." Well 30 seconds later the thing dies again.

By this time his head was only a fourth of the way done. The only thing we could do is go buy better clippers. So I cut off as much as I could off the rest of his hair with scissors. And then dared him to walk into the store with me to buy the clippers. He did, with his hair all jacked-up. The back of his head looked so bad, he kept holding his hand behind his head because he was so embarrassed and didn't want people to notice. Surprisingly, not too many people noticed, they were too busy shopping around. It really gave me a good laugh though.

All I could tell him was, "this was your idea, remember"