On Saturday morning a few of us got up early to go to Wimbledon to "queue" (also known as wait in line) to get day of tickets for the tournament. Wimbledon is one of the few large sporting events that still sets aside tickets (several thousands, like 6,000) for day of event sales. So, you can go out and queue for tickets.
You know it was a bad sign when getting off the tube the announcer said if you are going to Wimbledon don't bother if you don't already have a ticket as they have sold out, don't waste your time. After an hour of travel, we decided to still walk to the grounds to see what was going on.
As we were entering we were told to go to the large tennis ball:
Well sold out wasn't exactly true...we could have waited in line and gotten in, but it wouldn't be until after 5:00, did I mention that we got there at 8:30 in the morning. This was the end part of the line, we never even saw all of the line, that is how long it was!
When you enter the queue, you are given your queue card. I was pretty excited to get the queue card, until I saw the number on the bottom. I was the 9,422 person to enter the queue for that day, depressing.
Here are some other pictures from the day:
Sadly, you could only get into the shop from inside the grounds, so no souvenirs for me.
After leaving Wimbledon, we went to Portobello Road Market in Notting Hill. It was a great market, but was super busy as you can tell from the picture.
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