Wimbledon: Tim

Alright so we knew we were going to be waiting in line for a couple hours when we showed up to Wimbledon, but we were not expecting what we came upon. After getting out of the underground (which was pretty well packed) we were handed free stuff left and right from advertisers on our way to the Wimbledon Park Grounds. Granola bars, water, juice, a can of tennis balls. It was crazy! And they were all speaking with English accents which just catches me off guard every time! Once we got to the grounds, we were herded to the end of the queue and given a queue card saying we were the 11,000th people in line because we were supposed to stay in order. And then we just sat on the grass for 3 hours after they told us it would be 6 hours till we got in. All the english people were incredibly nice though they seemed to litter EVERYWHERE!!! Even if they were just feet from a rubbish bin. The free stuff didn't stop while we were waiting in line either, we got stickers and booklets about wimbledon and we stopped the ticket girl to ask her some questions because she seemed friendly enough. We asked her if she ever got to be a ball girl (because she had on a wimbledon uni that looked like a ballgirl one) and she told us that only people in the wimbledon junior and senior high schools got to be ball people and they had to train for 6 months to do it as well!!! And once we got inside we realized why! It was funny seeing the routine of the ballpeople no matter what!....they also did not seem overly coordinated. Something tells me at wimbledon schools you either play tennis....or are a ballperson. But like matt said we did get to see the Williams sisters play a bit of doubles and were in the front row to a lesser match, but don't let that fool you, it was the best tennis I have ever seen played in person! Alright well today we are off to Paris via train and hopefully some more exciting things there.