Okay, so Cath and I headed to Wimbledon, thanks to my friend Siobhan being a real star and organising us centre court tickets. We decided we wanted to go on day 2 rather than for the final as we wanted to see lots of players, and not just two. Maybe in retrospect we should have gone to the men's final - nah - I'm glad we went when we did - we got to see God's gift to men - Hantuchova - and to see her you have to go pretty early (cos she loses so early)!
Well you don't wanna hear all about what we did - you just wanna see the photies. Well these ones are all on my facebook page so if you've seen those, there's nothing new for you here folks.
Cath at the 'fixtures for the day' board
We headed over to the courts with the South Africans playing - we watched bits of two singles matches and one doubles.
Our doubles boys won and we saw some amazing points - one by Wesley Moodie hitting the ball around the base of the net - and another by Jeff Coetzee who was down and out against the back fence of the court, got up, got a smash back and won the point.
Here's me in the mother-flag.
cath watches one of our lads...
Below: Venus plays against... well, herself apparently. :)
Cool photies huh. we were really close to the action.
But we had a couple of 'must do's' on our list and one of which was to get some Pimms. So here's us with a glass or two... Bloody Cath with two glasses - Pimms-hog!
This is the new retractable roof that they're building for centre court - it'll be finished for next year's open.
And here's the current Wimbledon champion - Rafael Nadal - winning his first round match. Doesn't he just stick his ass out so much - I'm not the only one Carly!
Cath watching on with a pic of our favourite man in the Wimbledon
programme (must-buy number 2). She's such a poser!
So with Nadal in full swing, we headed off to the pleb courts to see some other names and to show Cath around the grounds (me, I'm a veteran of Wimbledon, this was my third or fourth visit).
First we saw Ljubicic...
Then Davydenko - losing on 'the graveyard' - as you do if yopu're a seed.
Then number 3 for our 'must do' list - Strawberries and cream.
Then a quick trip to Henman hill to rest Cath's weary feet and sit with the plebs who didn't have centre court tickets. Haha - it's WHO YOU KNOW - suckers!
Then
... drool, drool...
Hatuchova... the Slovakian goddess.
Note: Cath watching at bottom of pic below... How close can you get to the stars?
Then last but not least (before we ran off to catych up with our SA friends in a Wimbledon pub)...
A chance to see the Great Scot... Andrew Murray - sorry Madz - I don't like the little twerp - he makes me think of a weed in the wind.
Oh, and Frenchman Fabrice Santoro
Not a bad day's work.
So as mentioned, we then headed off to catch up with the London buddies... Cath had posted an invite on facebook and we were pleasantly surprised to see so many old friends there - and calculate how long it had been since we had last seen each other - I think Carlyn took the award with 5 years.
Thanks to Tanya we had a place to crash (we had stayed with mart and Inge the first night) and we headed back to Cork the next day, and work.... sigh.
Well you don't wanna hear all about what we did - you just wanna see the photies. Well these ones are all on my facebook page so if you've seen those, there's nothing new for you here folks.
CATH AND AL HIT THE ALL ENGLAND LAWN TENNIS CLUB
Cath at the 'fixtures for the day' board
We headed over to the courts with the South Africans playing - we watched bits of two singles matches and one doubles.
Our doubles boys won and we saw some amazing points - one by Wesley Moodie hitting the ball around the base of the net - and another by Jeff Coetzee who was down and out against the back fence of the court, got up, got a smash back and won the point.
Here's me in the mother-flag.
Below: Venus plays against... well, herself apparently. :)
Cool photies huh. we were really close to the action.
But we had a couple of 'must do's' on our list and one of which was to get some Pimms. So here's us with a glass or two... Bloody Cath with two glasses - Pimms-hog!
This is the new retractable roof that they're building for centre court - it'll be finished for next year's open.
And here's the current Wimbledon champion - Rafael Nadal - winning his first round match. Doesn't he just stick his ass out so much - I'm not the only one Carly!
Cath watching on with a pic of our favourite man in the Wimbledon
programme (must-buy number 2). She's such a poser!
So with Nadal in full swing, we headed off to the pleb courts to see some other names and to show Cath around the grounds (me, I'm a veteran of Wimbledon, this was my third or fourth visit).
First we saw Ljubicic...
Then Davydenko - losing on 'the graveyard' - as you do if yopu're a seed.
Then number 3 for our 'must do' list - Strawberries and cream.
Then a quick trip to Henman hill to rest Cath's weary feet and sit with the plebs who didn't have centre court tickets. Haha - it's WHO YOU KNOW - suckers!
Then
... drool, drool...
Hatuchova... the Slovakian goddess.
Note: Cath watching at bottom of pic below... How close can you get to the stars?
Then last but not least (before we ran off to catych up with our SA friends in a Wimbledon pub)...
A chance to see the Great Scot... Andrew Murray - sorry Madz - I don't like the little twerp - he makes me think of a weed in the wind.
Oh, and Frenchman Fabrice Santoro
Not a bad day's work.
So as mentioned, we then headed off to catch up with the London buddies... Cath had posted an invite on facebook and we were pleasantly surprised to see so many old friends there - and calculate how long it had been since we had last seen each other - I think Carlyn took the award with 5 years.
Thanks to Tanya we had a place to crash (we had stayed with mart and Inge the first night) and we headed back to Cork the next day, and work.... sigh.
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