tennis heaven!
well, first day off from class, me and courtney took the ol district line to wimbledon for a GORGEOUS afternoon! first of all - the weather today was unbelievable. 75 degrees, sunny, out in the suburbs by the all england lawn tennis and croquet club... beautiful, beautiful. on the ube however, it was HOT! sweated abotu 15 pounds off between th heat and the millions of people on the tube on the way back!
there was a scary moment, tho, when we got to the AELTC (wimbledon), because the tour was sold out! the tour is the best part! so we walked away dejectedly, with our heads down, almost crying, and the nice woman working there snuck us in on the list! so nice of her! and the tour was a amazing! can't post too many pictures in the interest of time, but we went to court 1, centre court, the dressing rooms, henman hill, the media areas, and we saw all the courts, and learned alot about the event and everything! and then there's a brand new tennis museum on the grounds too, which was awesome to see. wimbledon isnt too expensive either, its just really hard to get tickets. they are mostly reserved and stuff for everyone except for 500 go on sale on the day of the match, so people line up the street to get these tickets. and there are cheap tickets, to just get you into the grounds, and there are expensive ones for centre court, court 1 and court 2. the grass is rye grass 100%, its cut to 8mm for play, but 15 mm all other times. no one plays on centre court or court 1 except for during the tournament. so the last people to play on centre court were federer and roddick in last yrs final. the grass was lookin really good today, its extremely green. so nobody plays on any of the courts until after the tournament, then the members of the club can play. there's an electric fence surrounding the court now, which is to keep foxes off the grass. apparently they have a fox problem or something. you cant just pay money to get into the club either, you have to know about 6 people to give you recommendations to get in, too. the tour guide spoke alot about how to get tickets and stuff, i think he was kind of trying to sell the place. here's a few pictures of the place.. cant post alot because it takes forever. but basically, it was an excellent excellent afternoon! here's me on court 1, a picture of the trophies, which are at the end of the museum, and then a picture of what the grounds look like.
tomorrow: london eye finally, shakespeare's globe, and thai food in picadilly circus. oh did i mention i went to bigguns ribs last weekend? as a sort of break from work. took courtney. great ribs. tasted great to have american food again! anyways, just thought i'd throw that in!
cheers!
there was a scary moment, tho, when we got to the AELTC (wimbledon), because the tour was sold out! the tour is the best part! so we walked away dejectedly, with our heads down, almost crying, and the nice woman working there snuck us in on the list! so nice of her! and the tour was a amazing! can't post too many pictures in the interest of time, but we went to court 1, centre court, the dressing rooms, henman hill, the media areas, and we saw all the courts, and learned alot about the event and everything! and then there's a brand new tennis museum on the grounds too, which was awesome to see. wimbledon isnt too expensive either, its just really hard to get tickets. they are mostly reserved and stuff for everyone except for 500 go on sale on the day of the match, so people line up the street to get these tickets. and there are cheap tickets, to just get you into the grounds, and there are expensive ones for centre court, court 1 and court 2. the grass is rye grass 100%, its cut to 8mm for play, but 15 mm all other times. no one plays on centre court or court 1 except for during the tournament. so the last people to play on centre court were federer and roddick in last yrs final. the grass was lookin really good today, its extremely green. so nobody plays on any of the courts until after the tournament, then the members of the club can play. there's an electric fence surrounding the court now, which is to keep foxes off the grass. apparently they have a fox problem or something. you cant just pay money to get into the club either, you have to know about 6 people to give you recommendations to get in, too. the tour guide spoke alot about how to get tickets and stuff, i think he was kind of trying to sell the place. here's a few pictures of the place.. cant post alot because it takes forever. but basically, it was an excellent excellent afternoon! here's me on court 1, a picture of the trophies, which are at the end of the museum, and then a picture of what the grounds look like.
tomorrow: london eye finally, shakespeare's globe, and thai food in picadilly circus. oh did i mention i went to bigguns ribs last weekend? as a sort of break from work. took courtney. great ribs. tasted great to have american food again! anyways, just thought i'd throw that in!cheers!
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