Wimbledon...

I loved Wimbeldon. A day filled with sun, the outdoors, tennis, fun friends, adventure, and strawberries and cream!

Our day began with a 4 am wake up call. Then we grogilly headed to catch the night bus to Wimbledon. We got some funny looks since we were all dressed up for the day and everyone else was returning from really really late nights. Once we successfully changed busses 3 times we got to our stop and wandered around the town not knowing where to go until we found some other Wimbledon fans and followed them to the field.

 When we walked up to join the queue (fancy British word for the line) there was a line of tents from the very dedicated fans who spent the night.

I got a queue card and got in line.

I was #202. Even though it was 5am!

I even got a guide book on how to queue with lots of instructions and info for the day.

 And then the waiting began! 

It was freezing cold so we were really happy when the sun came up!

I was the only one even remotely prepared for how cold it was and I was still freezing!

While we were in line we got onto the Bristish tv station BBC. A bounch of us auburn girls were interviewed live on their "breakfast telly" show.

This older worker came by and woke everyone in the tents up. The next few hours was a series of moving and waiting, then moving and waiting, and moving and waiting.

We moved out fo the field and stood in another line for 2 hours (where we sent a few people off to Starbucks to get us some very needed breakfast). Then went through security and stood in another line. Then bought tickets and stood waiting to get into the game area. Then went into the game area and stood waiting to get to the courts. Then once the whole court area was opened we found our spot on the mound and waited until 1 until the first match started. 

Let me say all of that waiting was definately worth it!

(We were then on the radio. We had quite the day with the media!)

We got to watch Tsonga and Jackovitch play while we sat on the mound and ate pizza and strawberries and cream (very yummy).

It was amazing weather!

Later that day we bough tickets to Court #1 and got to see the Bryan brothers and then Lindsay Davenport play in doubles.

Then it was on to watch the Nadal v. Murray match. It was a HUGE deal since Murray is from Scotland and was a home town favorite. 

The crowed gathered on the mound to watch.

Then, thirteen hours later, we headed back to Liverpool Street!