It's pretty cool that the New Zealand All Blacks won the Rugby World Cup when it was hosted on home territory. They beat France by one point. That game certainly had us on the edge of our seats. The last time NZ held the Rugby World Cup had been in 1987.
On Wednesday, I took Dennis and a friend to the Victory Parade here in Wellington. The turnout was amazing--100,000 people. (That's about 1/3 of the people in Wellington.) It was challenging finding a place to park the car. We ended up not too far from Parliament. I got to see the backs of the All Blacks from a distance when they were receiving their handshakes from the Prime Minister and others. We were treated to an impromptu haka on Parliament's steps. The All Blacks perform a haka before their games, basically saying to the other team that they're going to "kill" them.
Here's a link to last Wednesday's bonus.
YouTube has other videos of the parade as well.
The next Rugby World Cup will be in England in 2015. We are now rugby fans so we'll be watching plenty of games between now and 2015.
Today we spent a half hour tossing a rugby ball with Dennis. The rugby leagues will probably have an increase in enrollment due to kids' new interest in the game.
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