Wimbledon

So after Estonia we had two more days off before heading to Greece and from Greece to Macedonia where the tournament is taking place. We again had fly out of London but this time our flight was leaving at 8:30 am which meant that we were meeting at 6 am. So all of the girls that live in the North of England needed to come down a night early and stay in a hotel next to the airport. So Kelsey, Charlotte and I decided that we would go down early so that we could try and get into Wimbledon.

So we caught the train from Manchester down to London. Then once we got down to London we had to get the tube (London’s underground transportation system) to Victoria Station where we were going to leave our luggage. This turned out to be quite the task. We had four big rolling duffle bags with our backpacks and a box. Not the easiest things to carry around. A broken escalator, and a wrong tube stop later we were finally at Wimbledon. We had to get in “The Queue” (the line) because we did not have any tickets. After two hours of queuing and 14 pounds (about $23.00 US dollars) later we were in!!!!

We did not have tickets to any of the matches, we would have had to queue again if we wanted to do that. So we just wandered around, and we even stumbled into Venus and Serena Williams playing doubles. That was pretty cool. Then we sat on Henman Hill and watched Andy Murray v Stanislas Wawrinka on the big screen. We wandered around some more and went in the Wimbledon shop. Then we decided to head back before the Murray match was over to avoid the crowds. We grabbed some dinner at a pub by the train station and watched the end of the Murray match on tv. It was a nail bitter for sure, but Murray was able to pull it out. Then it was time to head to our hotel. We were definitely knackered (tired in American) but it was well worth it. Definitely a great day!