So today was a two event day. We got up around 5:30 and decided to actually take the bus to Centre City instead of walking this time. By the time we got into London it was around 7:30 and finally got to see the Olympic Park. None of our events so far have been in the Olympic Park. The aquatics center, basketball arena, olympic stadium, and other venues are in the park. There was this awesome spiral structure in the centre. Not sure what that might be for. Could be a restaurant at the top. So in the aquatics center we saw the heat rounds for 200M IM women's, 200M Butterfly men's, and 200M Freestyle women's. I am not sure but it look like Phelps held back some just to move on to the next round because he came in 3rd overall of 16 places. I hope that is the case. From there we had to get on another train to get to other side of London where we saw Table Tennis the other day to see Boxing today. We saw 5 flyweight matches and 5 light heavyweight matches. They were all pretty good, but the last one was the best one between the USA and Aussie. I think the Brits love Aussie or dislike the USA since they were cheering for him like crazy. Our guy did pretty good until the last round and lost that round big time, which made the Aussie catch up in points and pass him for the win to move on. On the train back from the events I felt we were cows. Just a whole bunch of tourist being heard into one direction. On the train back to Oxford we witness a little girl running through the train laughing and then the parents were running through the train. By the time the little girl got caught and came back she was laughing and being so gitty it was the best time she had for a chase. So then it was back to Oxford and we actually got back at a decent time for once! By the time we went to the grocery store for pizza, YUM! It was 7:30:) Now I will let Laura write if she would like:
Yay my turn. What John hasn't really talked about much is all the different countries that we've seen. We've seen people from all kinds of places. Today for example in the boxing we saw a Mongolian cheering section (the Mongolian won!) and they were doing cheers and the coach was yelling in Mongolian. We also saw some street musicians from Thailand that were all dressed up and the music was really good. They also have food from all kinds of different countries in the arenas. They have sushi, cornish pastries, McDonalds (boo!) Indian, Caribbean, and traditional British. There is probably more but I haven't seen them up close. I think John pretty much covered the rest of today so I'll stop now. Enjoy the pictures!
I tried to wave to cousin Jeffrey but he didn't see me :(
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