Not going to lie and say that I catch every US National Soccer game (or even most), but yesterday the US men's team was playing Argentina (in New Jersey). So naturally we made it out to a bar.  The game itself was quite interesting ending in a 1-1 tie because the US was having playing defense the entire game.  One of the Argentinian forwards is Lionel Messi, who was voted World Player of the Year last year.  At times there were literally 3-4 defenders on him and he was blasting past them and taking shots.  Our goalie was our only saving gracing having saved at least 3-4 goals that a lesser goalie would have let pass. Even though 80% of the crowd was cheering for the US, the 20% Argentinian were twice as loud.  Lots of yells of "Vamos!!" Not sure how many actual American were in the bar as we were the only ones wearing red (the new US mens uniform colors).  The people in this bar were very preppy and the only soccer jerseys were those of the Argentinians.  Everyone seemed to be wearing button up shirts and sweaters.  We did sit next to so people from Houston but the remaining English around us sounded British.


After leaving the bar, the streets had been closed down for some festival called Noche en Vela (Night in Candle).  It had something to do with Earth Hour (which is were countries turn off the lights on their national monuments for an hour as a show of conservation) but this festival lasted until 7am.  


In our neighboorhood, it was 3 different stages with rock bands, tango music and preformance theater (a guy was typing jokes and trivia live from his mac).




Another stage had people from the City doing arobic dances with a crowd of people following along.  This guy that Elizabeth snapped a picture of was very funny to watch.