An update from Denise Letendre:
The past few days have been absolutely crazy!
Friday we went to the High Courts as a group and then I went and saw Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, The National Art Museum, and Westminster Cathedral. Saturday we went to Blenheim Palace and then celebrated the 4th in Oxford.
Yesterday's experience tops it all though. Cat and I decided we were going to try to go see the Wimbledon Championships. They were selling grounds tickets for 8 pounds which let you set on Henman Hill and watch from a screen. So we traveled to London, took a tube to Wimbledon, and stood in the queue for about 45 minutes waiting for grounds tickets.
Once we got in, I had to use the restroom so we asked where one was and we were directed to center court. After using the bathroom, we decided to sneak a peak at center court. Since it was hours before the game started, we were allowed in and some guards took our picture.
Some former players were signing autographs down at the court's edge so we decided to go down there. After that we took a seat in the front row just to soak in the atmosphere. We thought we would sit there until someone told us to move or claimed the seats we sat in...that didn't happen until during the 4th set of the match! All of the seats around us (and throughout the entire stadium) filled up except for ours and we were never asked for tickets!
We got to sit in the front row of the Men's Final at Wimbledon for 8 pounds! It was surreal! Eventually, someone did come and we had to high tail it down the row and out of the stadium but it was spectacular while it lasted and for sure an experience I will never forget! I checked the BBC news website this morning and there is a photo of Roger Federer with me in the background which is absolutely crazy!
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