Are we there yet?

To say that I'm dead tired right now is an understatement...the past 2 days have been non-stop crazy!  Yesterday was one of the most unforgettable experiences of my life.  We went to Wimbledon and I'm so so glad that I did!

We started our day around 6:15 and let me tell you that was not easy ha.  We had to take the Tube to get there but the funny thing was, was that we didn't get off at the Wimbledon stop.  We got off at a stop 2 before Wimbledon because the complex isn't actually in the town of Wimbledon...weird right?  When we got there, we joined the queue, which is the never ending line and this is what we came upon...

You can't really tell how many people are in line but let me just tell you that there were about 9000 people in front of us and we got there at 8:15.  People camped out the night before and one of the officials said that people started queueing up at 6:30...some people really like tennis haha.  We didn't seriously think it would be that crowded that early but you live and you learn I guess.  After we joined the queue, the waiting game began.  We sat and stood in like for 8 hours to get in...so worth it though.  The annoying part though was when we got up and moved from this field we got all excited thinking that we were going to get in soon...not the case at all.  We weaved in and out of lines for probably another 3 hours thinking every time that when we went around a corner we were close so it was a lot of ups and downs.  It was pretty cold in the morning so that was a little annoying but thankfully it didn't rain otherwise we would have been screwed.  The weather was absolutely PERFECT when we finally got in which was around 4:30.

Finally getting to go in the complex was one of the most exciting experiences of my life.  It was definitely a surreal moment because Wimbledon is one of my favorite sporting events of all time.  Never in a million years would I ever have thought that I would actually get to go and watch tennis at Wimbledon.  It was so cool and the complex was absolutely beautiful.  There were SO many people there and so many different types of people too.  You saw anything from dresses and suits to like holister shorts and flip-flops.  We wandered around for awhile because we had a grounds ticket which only let us go to courts 3-19.  Most of the good tennis had already been played by the time we got in but I didn't even care because I was in Wimbledon.  We saw Francesca Schiavone, who is a very scary Italian woman that was the runner up of the French open this year I believe, play doubles.  She was the most famous person that we saw though.  We tried to bump off center court tickets but unfortunately I wasn't that lucky.

 Center Court

 All of us waiting in line foreverrrrrr

We ended up leaving probably around 8:30 but I honestly couldn't tell you because we were so tired from the day and so hungry that we could have eaten our hands.  We were all so delirious it was probably entertaining for the people on the Tube with us.  We finally got to this great greek restaurant at around 9:15 and the meal was well worth the wait.  We headed home after our delicious meal at the Real Greek and crashed.  I could barely keep my eyes open because I was so tired and delirious but like I said it was so worth it it's not even funny.

So this morning I got up and ran with one of the girls on my trip and it was great!  I kinda died but we ran through Regents park and it is absolutely beautiful!  I haven't run in awhile so I'll definitely be feeling it tomorrow but it was great to finally exercise.  We did a little shopping at River Island and TopShop today but they were both crazy and I was not in the mood or feeling too well so it was a very short lived shopping trip haha.  We came back and met up with some other girls and began our marathon afternoon of sight seeing.  We originally planned to only go to Big Ben, Parliament, and the Tower Bridge but we ended up seeing all those plus St. Paul's Cathedral, the Globe Theater, the London Bridge (which is not falling down by the way haha), and a couple other that I can't remember.  We walked to all of them too because the weather was gorgeous out today!  It got a little hot but it was a nice break from the cold rainy weather that we've been having.  Don't worry though that weather is coming back on Tuesday...thanks London.

 Tower Bridge

 St. Paul's Cathedral

 Globe Theater

 Big Ben

After all our frolicking around the Thames River we headed back, picked up some pizza at Pizza Express (delicious), and took our dinner to Regent's Park to picnic.  The weather was great and definitely a good night to picnic but apparently we weren't the only people who had the idea because the park was packed.  We were going to go to Primrose Hill to watch the sunset but we got so tired and started to get cold so we headed back for a little down time.  The last 2 days have been exhausting but definitely worth it!  My first day of work is tomorrow though so wish me luck because I'm definitely a wee bit nervous but excited too.  I'm sure it will go well and hopefully go by fast though.  Real world here I come!  Cheerio!