yes we did

Here is the badge of honor we both earned yesterday.  We had Wimbledon fever, and once we remembered that we lived just a couple hours away from where all the action was happening, we had to go.  

Saturday

6:22 am: driving away from our doorstep

8:58 am: arriving at the end of the infamous "Queue".  We are 11,424th in line.  Seriously. 

11:30 am: still in the queue, the sun is hot

1:30 pm: still in the queue, the sun is still hot

3:30 pm: still in the queue, searching for bits of shade

4:50 pm: still in the queue, staring at the end in sight, sunburned

5:04 pm: disbelief that we actually just stepped inside!

  

We drove for 4 hours.  We experienced "The Queue" for a full 8 hours.  And we watched tennis at Wimbledon for 4 hours.   A Saturday well spent. ;) 

I can confirm two things about the Wimbledon tournament: first, they do play on real grass. I had a pointless conspiracy theory that the grass was fake.  Second, the players really are young. Marc kept insisting that we were accidentally watching the junior/youth tournament until we started recognizing faces.  They look so much older on TV (why?) but I can indeed confirm that the 30 best tennis players in the world are in fact my age and much younger.  And dang they're good.