Wimbledon

Sorry this post is a little delayed. (Although I've had more time to blog than I originally expected!) Here are some highlights from the past three days.

Thursday afternoon we took a tour of the Senate House Library here in London, which we can use as a resource for our studies. However, the coolest part is that we saw them filming the new Batman movie here. I didn't have my camera, so no pictures, but the front of the library is used as the town hall of Gotham City. I heard somebody from our program saw Anne Hathaway.

Friday we got up ungodly early to go to...drum roll please...WIMBLEDON! We got the very first train out of Chelsea at about 5:30 in the morning to go "queue" for tickets. What I found rather funny is that The Queue for Wimbledon is always capitalized, as if it is its own entity.

Some pictures, with captions following...

The Queue. We were about 3000th in line upon our arrival at 6am. By about 3pm, over 12,000 people were there.

A 29-page pamphlet about how to queue properly. (For the record, it also had other information about Wimbledon in it, but it still struck me as funny.)

Me, eating strawberries and cream, the official snack of Wimbledon. And yes, it was deliciously refreshing.

Centre Court!

As we were walking about, some nice military man, probably noticing our cameras and how completely awed we were by the grounds, asked if we would like to go into Centre Court and take pictures! My first thought was that we were probably not allowed to do that (because we only had ground tickets which let us into any courts except centre, 1, and 2), and my second thought was, "How much is this going to cost us?" But it didn't cost anything! He led us down to the front and we took pictures of Centre Court, which follow.

There are some of my friends from the program!
Back Row: Katie H, Greer, Me, Elyse, Jory, Katie W
Front Row: Ella, Jeanne, Nicole

We didn't get to see a really famous match up close, but watching this one between Bartoli and Dominguez on court 3 was fun!

We also got to watch a huge screen showing Sharapova and Robson's match while sitting on a huge hill full of Brits rooting for Robson! (She is British and only 17!) Robson ended up losing the match, but it was fun to be a part of the British comradery.

Saturday morning a few of us went to the Natural History museum, and I won't bore you with all the pictures of the exhibits (especially since the dinosaurs were "on holiday," aka being cleaned!) but I will show you a picture of the outside. I think it's my favorite building in London so far!

Off to make some dinner with the ladies. Cheers!