Wimbleldon

Had a nice 'bucket list' item ticked off last week. Vivian's friend showed us how to get into the lottery for Wimbledon tickets and Vivian scored nicely. The kids decided that they had 70 or 80 years before they had to tick Wimbledon off their list so they passed. Big miss. I am going to bore you with details but for the guys out there, it is worth it to either read or skip to the end. The grounds were fabulous. If I wrote about all the flowers etc., I might get kicked out of guy club so let's just say it was very nice. First match we say was mixed doubles. What is cool is that one of the girls (Shvedova) is playing in the women's doubles final as we speak. She won her mixed doubles match but they were defeated later in the week.

Match number two was excellent. What was exceptionally cool about this match is that that this pair (Melzer and Petzschner) just won the men's doubles a few minutes ago. Very very cool. We then made our way to Henman Hill. This is a hill behind Court 1 where there is a big Jumbo Tron Screen. Everyone sits around on the grass and drinks Pimms (we tried one) and they eat strawberries and cream (Wimbledon tradition). We went there to watch Serena Williams win. She went on today to win it all. We trolled around a bit, went to the museum which was very cool. Grabbed a bite to eat. And strolled around some more of the grounds. Then we made our way to watch Tracy Austin in women's invitational doubles. As the sweetheart of tennis from back in day, that was quite a treat. We strolled through and watched some great junior players. What a thing to participate in.

Now for the grand finale. The last match of the day on our court was Anna Kornikova and Martina Hingis playing doubles. Vivian's magnificent draw had us on the first and second row of that match, right at the service line. Most excellent way to close out a 'bucket list' event.