mmm summer is here

hey everyone,
summer is here and it is great - except when it's 30 degrees and i have footy training or netball, then i nearly die. but i'm not complaining, i have been waiting for summer forever. but you should here all the pommes whining about the heat as soon as it hits 25.so all i have been doing in the last month is going to the park and playing football (we're in the grand final- yay) and netball and going to bbq's and watching lots of football (sorry, soccer). did you see that french dude head-butt the italian dude. funny, best part of the whole match.
the best thing i've done of late though is to go to wimbledon. rikki decided that she wanted to go to wimbledon on thursday, but to get tickets we had to line up overnight. being the ultra-organised people that we are we got there a 2.30 in the morning only to be 437th in line. but that was cool, the queue went all the way down the road and into the park, so we got to sleep in the park. but the grass was wet and we didn't have anything to keep us from getting wet. so we complained loudly and lots until the guy in front of us in the queue kindly gave us his spare picnic blanket which we slept on with 2 german dudes we met at the train station.
in the morning we moved with the queue for 3 hours and then we were in. we got our choice of tickets (we chose court 1 so we could see andre agassi, venus williams and leyton hewitt) and we had made friends with a couple of aussies guys, sean who had lent us his picnic blanket and matt a loner aussie we got chatting to. we had also made friends with a few other people, but they had all gone for centre court tickets.
so we saw agassi beat seppi which was good, but by the end my head was going up and down instead of side to side as i was falling asleep, but i wasn't the only one, matt fell asleep halfway through opening a starburst! so we went out to henman's hill and had a nap on the hill and then went back to watch venus williams. what an amazon she is! poor little lisa raymond didn't have a chance.
but the highlight of the day was definately watching leyton hewitt. he was playing against the korean guy lee, and it was an awesome match. it was really close and we were sitting amongst a few other aussies where we were gettinga bit rowdy and getting dirty looks from the ref. but we were also getting looks from leyton which was cool. we were getting him all riled up with what i like to refer to as 'constructive heckling'. we were pretty damn funny and soon had the whole crowd going. the end of the 4th set it was 2 each so they were about to go into the final set when they called it quits for the day because of the fading light! that was pretty disappointing.
so we had a great day and saw some cool matches, but the best thing about wimbledon is the atmosphere. it's so polite and nice. it's kind of weird as you kind of expect rowdy at sporting events, but here you have all the groundstaff and security dressed in boatman-style suits and wandering around chatting to people. they come up and ask if you're having a good day and say thanks for coming and offer to show you around and stuff, it's pretty cool. and while watching the match, everyone is quiet for the serves and even when the whole crowd was pulling for hewitt everyone was clapping and cheering for lee when he made good shots, it's really good fun.
so since then, i haven't been doing much. some drinking and i did get to catch up with ian (perth guy i used to work with) and rach (chick i used to live with in cottesloe) which was pretty cool. ian and i and some friends went out in soho and leicester square, as well as the mandatory trip to the walkabout, which was all good fun despite ian's disappointment at clubs in london shutting at 3am. but, you know, he didn't whinge about it all. i caught up with rach, and my hangover caught up with me, at the spitalfields market and then we went with some firends of rach's to this free music festival which was pretty cool.
anyway, that's me. next month is egypt!! yay yay yay. i can't wait.
so ta ta for now & keep in touch