Game, Set..Wimbledon!

Wowzers..what an adventure today to make it to Wimbledon, one of the major tennis tournaments (part of the Grand Slam) at the All England Lawn and Tennis club. Personally, i'm not a big fan of tennis but I am a sports fan so while we were here, we just had to go check it out...

• Center Court tickets are actually sold the year before in a random ballot and on the day of the matches, there are limited tickets left for people to buy. Approx 500 Center court tickets and 6000 gorunds passes are available but to get the center court ones, people camp overnight. We were not doing that. So we went for the grounds passes but still, it was advised to go early to queue up for them....and then...

• We left our place at 6:00 AM (yes read that right) and caught the train to Wimbledon and finally got in the queue close to 7:45. Let me tell you, the amount of people already there was unreal!!! By the time we got our queue ticket (which you need to prove your place in line), we were already #6437!! We waited outside, luckily it was nice out, for just over 3.5 hours and finally got into the place 10 minutes before the 1st match started!!

• While we were walking on the grounds, a guy accidentally bumped into Lisa. I kept on looking at him since he looked familiar and then when I saw people runnning to get his autograph, I realized it was Rafael Nadal, the current #2 player in the world!! he was just going into the Center Court building but i managed to run in front of him and get a quick snap (see below)

• Extremely expensive there - but had to get the traditional Wimbledon fare - champagne, Pimm's, strawberries and cream..mmmmmmm.

• Watched a few matches (no real big names) of junior girls on the outer courts and one men's match at the end on court 18 (A. Clement i believe was the dude who won it). The junior girls were all pretty tall and lean but i think i could've played with them...lol right.

• Very cool experience but if you can, you must try and get Center Court tickets to get the full experience!