keeping up with the kortlevers: superbowl monday.

a sight to behold.

The Seahawks are Super Bowl Champions.

Of course it's the year we move away from Seattle.

I have to give it up to Ben - he had originally gotten the day off work to watch the big game (due to the time difference, the Super Bowl aired live in Melbourne on Monday morning) but decided to save his vacation day for a possible near-future emergency trip for my family. He missed out on a legendary event, but received text updates from friends and family from the States, as well as myself. However, I was the wrong Kortlever to be at home watching the game, as you can see by my text updates:

And also this lovely gem from facebook:

rude.

I watched the game in the comfort of our apartment, texting Ben and my sister-in-law, keeping an eye on my facebook/twitter/instagram friends from back home, enjoying the excited status updates and pictures from various parties and gatherings. It's fun keeping in touch with everyone in general, but it was even more fun knowing we were all watching the same sporting event, and (mostly) all rooting for the same team. The only bummer for me was that our local channel One didn't air any of the American commercials (the only reason I have watched the Super Bowl in the past..!), just the same old daily Australian ones. But thanks to The Internets, I've been able to catch up quickly on my superhero movie trailers.

cheering for the Hawks with my neighbour Totoro.

It's such a bummer to be away from the Emerald City this week! Especially for Ben, who was born and raised in Washington and is a big fan of Seattle's sports teams. Hawks fans are intense, and judging from the pictures and videos we saw of the post-game celebrations out on the streets of our old stomping grounds ("pandemonium" is a gentle way of describing it), we're missing out on a ton of crazy energy. My old workplace, the Space Needle, must be going absolutely insane, and it would have been fun to watch the game with friends and family... or other people at the very least.

Speaking of which, there was apparently a giant Super Bowl watching party at Federation Square, which I didn't know about until hours after it had ended, when I walked past it on my way to run club. There was a grand stand set up, concession and souvenir booths, and even a nice sculpture of the Empire State Building flanked by American flags. It would have been fun to celebrate with random Melbournians, but it's probably a good thing I stayed inside, as I'm known to get quite rowdy among football fans...