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Despite the fact that I have a backlog of picspams to do, the games today are wonderful! GOLTV just showed the Celtic vs Al-Ahly game from the Peace Cup and now they have the Spurs vs Barca game! Then they are showing Lyon vs Besiktas and Malaga vs Aston Villa before the Colombian league games start. However, instead of showing these on TV they are having live streams. Which is okay, I don't mind. Atletico Huila vs Santa Fe is at 7:15 PM followed by Deportivo Cali (MY team!) vs Pereira at 9:15. I got my copy of the movie 'Coraline' from Amazon.com yesterday but I haven't had time to watch it! I will have to try to fit it in! My husband asked me if I wanted to go shopping and I said "No way, Jose! Not today!" LOL.

In other news, I was supposed to be in Boston this weekend for the Milan exhibition derby, having bought tickets and reserved a hotel room. However, at the time I bought the tickets I did not know that Toronto would be getting both River Plate and Real Madrid for exhibition friendlies! Also, Olivia and I were going to go together but she ended up going back to Vancouver and is unable to get back here at this time. That would have been okay because Jamie would have gone with me, but my husband convinced me that enough was enough and to cancel my hotel reservation in Boston and try to sell my tickets on ebay. I ordered tickets to both Toronto games and they were quite expensive. The River Plate tickets were $110.00 each. The Real Madrid ones were $150.00 each! The AC Milan-Inter Milan tickets were $125.00 each! The hotel - the Royal Sonesta - would have cost $250.00 per night for two people and I would have had to get it for two nights. The game tickets included the training session today so we would have had to be in Boston last night. And then the airfare would have been another big whack of money.

My experience with ebay has never been good. I did manage to sell the tickets to the highest bidder, a guy from the Boston area, for $102.50 US (which is about $120.00 Canadian). So I lost $130.00 on the deal. I am a bit bummed because I can't go now (and see Jose Mourinho) but also, I never thought to check with my flist and see if anyone lives near Boston. I would rather have given them away for nothing to someone I 'know' than to sell them for a $130.00 loss. And yet I guess it's better than nothing. :(

Some good news - Toronto is offering tickets to the Real Madrid training session on Thursday night, August 6, for $10.00!!! It will be a bit of a hike into the city for that, but WTF. I might just do it! Also, Jamie will be going with me to the Madrid game so I can do anything I want and act as crazy as possible! LOL.

Okay, on to my next picspam!

Date: 2009-07-25 11:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whitediamondzz.livejournal.com
i would totally go with you if you're looking for someone :)

Date: 2009-07-25 11:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] just-jenni.livejournal.com
Well, thank you for the offer! Since I have to work until 7 PM that night in Pickering, it would take me too long to go home first and then come back out so I am not sure I would be able to go. And unless I drove down to the stadium, it would take too long by GO train. But we can talk about it if you like. I'm going to have to make up my mind about it before Monday morning because that is when I'd have to buy the training tickets.

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