Wimbledon

We had a good time at the tennis despite the rain which fell almost all day. The travel arrangements fell into place easily with buses laid on from the station to the ground and then a fairly speedy entry compared to the poor souls queuing for hours. We met up with Jane who has umpired at Wimbledon for years and I'd always wondered how much influence she might have. Fortunately she is well known and was able to get us good seats once play was underway.

Joy would have been happy to sit watching highlights on the big screen on Henman Hill I think but we did get to see number 7 seed Berdych play a Korean guy called Lee before making our way down to court 2 scheduled to be Venus Williams against Morigami from Japan. Cue jokes about it being pay per view (paper view) and how she could easily have folded during the match.

We were ushered into the press/entourage seating area and got to sit with the players families which was good. Then it rained some more and that was it for the day. I did manage a few photos though including Brian Lara with Clive Lloyd which was much more exciting that seeing the tennis players! However, we did see Navratilova as well and she would probably have a good case for being even more famous than those two.