Bucket List: Watch a Live Sports Match Together

I love it when a plan comes together. I'm all about organisation and efficiency, and when I see the culmination of planning and preparation come together in a perfectly executed event, I'm genuinely tickled pink. Weird, I know.

This was not planned. This was totally out of the ordinary for me. It was spontaneous and chaotic - and perhaps because of this, even more wonderful.

Late on Saturday afternoon, after an already long day of work in the morning for Andel, and work thereafter for me, we got a message that a group of people who had received tickets to the local Super Rugby derby between the Gauteng Lions and our home team, The Stormers, were no longer able to go. Andel offered them to a few more people, but no one bit, and so we decided - like 15 minutes before the game - that we would go. All of us.

Now there is method to this madness. If we were to consider all the options to make this bucket list item happen, we'd have to think about: what sport do we all enjoy? which sport is played close to home for us to attend? what is the cost for our whole family to go? how accommodating would the venue be for young kids? how would we keep the younger kids occupied for the duration of the match? This trip to Newlands would tick all the boxes: we all enjoy rugby, and what better opportunity to engage in some local support; the stadium is literally less than 10 minutes from our house; we already had complimentary tickets, enough for all of us; it was a local derby so the stadium would not be too full; and we could probably survive 80 minutes of play under those circumstances.

I need to mention here that Ash, PJ and Ethan were also going to be attending this game, as was Pops. So it seemed like the safest option in terms of reinforcements too! Add to this that The Stormers had lost the previous match, and we had a real cracker experience for the kids. And they were not disappointed.

We start them off young here!

Soaking up all of South Africa

When watching rugby and eating donuts is life

Sam's favourite is Superhero Rugby

Just to prove we were all there

Living our best lives in 2019

You can check out the highlights of the game here, but for us the highlight was being there together, and watching Zac and Ethan support their team to an unlikely and overtime victory. This is definitely something I suspect we will be doing more of as the kids get older, and I can't actually wait!