Just had an amazing, if exhausting, 2 1/2 days of Olympic action! The party for the opening ceremony was really fun - I wasn't expecting the opening ceremony to be such good viewing, normally they seem interminable. Several people quizzed me about how I'd lost so much weight, one even commented on my 'bikini bod' - I'm quite tanned from letting it all hang out in sunny London last week! I was massively tempted to drink, for the first time since I quit 2 months ago, not quite sure how I stopped myself but glad I did now.
Saturday and Sunday were spent at Olympic tennis. We were on Court 1 and the weather on Saturday was fab. Yesterday it kept raining but we managed to sneak our way onto Centre Court and watched Andy Murray, Maria Sharipova and Jo Wilfred Tsonga - amazing! Public transport, security, the volunteers, everything ran like clockwork and the atmosphere was great - lots of different nationalities, lots of English who weren't officionados of tennis but were there because it was the Olympics, everyone happy and friendly and remarkably relaxed and excited at the same time, if that's possible. Honestly, if you get the chance to go to anything at all, do it! The only downside, the incredibly tedious picnic (mine)! God I shall be glad when I don't have to be the weirdo munching on lumps of dried out roast beef, interspersed with boiled eggs, all day, all washed down with 1 1/2 litres of water! Roll on, 2 weeks on Friday...