This post is a little delayed, but last week Annie and I went out to try and catch a game at Wimbledon after work. We headed out to the tennis grounds around 4 pm expecting to have to wait in the queue (English word for line) for a couple of hours just to get into the grounds. Well lucky us, there was no line at all!! We just walked right up, paid our 5 pounds to get in and there we were! So what they do at Wimbledon, is have a ticket resale booth. As people leave matches early they have to turn in their tickets for their seats then people that show up on the day of with no tickets can buy these seats. When we showed up the Roddick/Hewitt match was playing on Court No. 1, the line at the ticket resale booth was really long so we decided to go join the rest of the crowd on Henman Hill and watch the game on the big screen. This actually turned out to be really fun. They have this huge hill outside of Court No. 1 called Henman Hill (named after some English tennis player) there is a HUGE big screen set up so everyone parks it on the hill and watches the match. It is fun b/c you can bring food in and picnic, plus you can buy Pimms and Strawberries and Cream, etc from all of the vendors on the grounds.
Me and Annie on Henman Hill
The view from the hill
Our Texas boy!
Me and my Pimm's!
Yay, Roddick won!! Too bad he couldn't win the whole thing!
On the way out we saw John McEnroe on top of the BBC Media center set up for commentary!!
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I absolutely LOVE Wimbledon. I was obsessed back in the day, especially with Pete Sampras. We watched the final match yesterday on TV so I'm pretty sure that's why I had a weird dream last night that I was there eating strawberries and creme! BTW, Tim Henman is the famous brit tennis guy :) He was good back in the day, but not sure he plays much anymore. Miss you!!!
Two of my favorite things: A good Pimms and Wimbledon. I hope to be there watching it with you next year.
The guy next to McEnroe is Henman who the hill is named after!
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