Guus Bosman

Sadly the USA lost its game against Ghana on Saturday. We watched it at the pool in Secaucus; it was great weather and we went for a swim after wards. In the evening we prepared for the week; lots of travel and things to arrange. Sunday morning we saw a great game between Germany and England over breakfast.

Sunday afternoon we drove to Trenton where Sasha took the train to DC for the last time. I visited Noor to drop of some materials that I had borrowed and stopped by at the Zanes for a few minutes.

This morning's match between the Netherlands and Slowakia was exciting, but the Dutch were clearly the stronger team. Friday, against Brazil, will be a very difficult match...

I'm on my way back to Newark airport in New Jersey, where I parked our car on Tuesday. I took the train from Union Station in DC two hours ago, and we've just left the station in Delaware.

It's been a while since I took a train. When we lived in Arlington I'd travel to Philadelphia for work occasionally but I haven't taken a train in the USA in years. It's pretty good experience. I'm in a quiet car, so no cell phones or loud talking allowed. There is power for my laptop.

We're wrapping up a great weekend in Georgetown with hot weather and a lot of World Cup games.

It will be nice to be back in our apartment in Somerset, after a lot of travel in the last two weeks. We'll have one more weekend in Somerset, and then we'll move back to Durham again.

The customer meetings went very well this week. I demonstrated an alpha version of our product to them; it all worked and the customer likes the functionality. It's so valuable to meet people face-to-face.

We left the hotel at 6.00 am this morning. There wasn't much traffic on the way to San Francisco airport so we arrived early. Due to the 3 hours time difference with the East Coast I had my first conference call at 7.00 am.

Over breakfast (home-made Californian granola) I watched the game between Slovenia and the USA. The game started at 7.00 am Pacific Time, and lots of people in the airport were watching it. A great game with the USA coming back from 2-0. It really should have been 2-3, that last goal was valid!

This morning I watched the soccer game Netherlands-Denmark in a bar at Times Square in New York. It was a unique experience to be in a bar at 7.30 am on a Monday morning. No beer for me, just coffee, but plenty other fans had beers with their soccer game.

Petra and her mother were also there; it was great to see them. They were leaving on a cruise to Canada in the afternoon and spent some time in New York City this weekend. There were about 300 Dutch people in the bar watching the soccer game, and maybe 15 to 20 Danish fans.

It was great to watch with such a crowd, even better of course since Holland won with 2-0.