Singapore 7s Day 1

One of the exciting sports events we enjoy here in Singapore is the Rugby 7s. Unlike the normal rugby games we get to see there are so many short games in one day. And of course we have so much fun spending the whole day with our international friends :)

Quite a dilemma how to dress the kids for the day - supporting New Zealand or Japan.

In the end we dressed the kids up in an NZ theme. Luca in his Maori outfit and Ashley in kiwi dress up. Oliver wasn't too keen, he just wanted to wear his All Blacks outfit. Luca is being staunch.

Last year we won tickets to go to the games through HSBC so we were waiting for the same kind of promotion until very close this time. There was no promotion we could try with HSBC but we found a great promotion that we could enter though StarHub - our cable TV company. We tried our luck and guess what!? We won super special tickets - Two day entry to CAT1 seats for family of 4. On the second day you get to meet legend ex All Black Zinzan Brooke!!!!! plus we get to spend the entire day in the StarHub suite at the stadium (free drinks and food provided).  

We were so looking forward to our special rugby weekend. Here are some pictures from Day 1. We arrived very early so there weren't many people yet. 

We managed to find (it was quite easy to spot them!) our Kiwi friends who were dressed up as Billy T. James, the Kiwi comedian. 

Oliver and Matthew took their yellow towels to join the group:

Jason and James :)

Annabel:

Aisla and Ashley:

Naima:

Nicola:

Go NZ!!!

 

We had to make sure we added some Japanese colours when the Japanese team was playing!

Our French friend Fabrice and his daughter arrived later - just in time for Japan vs France!

And guess what!? Japan won!!!!

The kids were pretty tired by the end of the day. And of course most of our friends had way too much to drink. Not many were standing straight... 

Let me show you how our once in a lifetime special day of rugby went on Day 2 in the next post.