This week the countdown to our one year anniversary since having left Australia was on.
Mark's birthday was on Wednesday this week so we posted a card back home with some currency enclosed to get him and Lauren ready for their pending visit (hopefully it made it there...)
Months ago we'd submitted an entry for the Wimbledon ballot. Despite the thousands of entries that would have been received, the two of us with our limited knowledge of Wimbledon and tennis in general, were offered the opportunity to purchase centre court tickets on a Saturday. Other people we'd spoken to who entered the ballot had either been offered inferior tickets or none at all. Georgie, Brendan's manager, who is an avid tennis fan described our offer as "gold", and so with this glowing recommendation we had no hesitation in following through with the purchase of tickets.
We also booked our holiday for Roslyn's second summer birthday, this year we will be exploring the Greek islands.
To launch the new Candy Crush Jelly Saga game, promoters had set up a free jumping castle (or bouncy castle as the Brits call it) adjacent to Roslyn's office. The castle emitted a sweet raspberry jelly scent and it's vibrant colours were illuminated of an evening.
Sadly for us, the castle was only in operation for 3 days and closed at 7pm each night. Brendan finished work at 6pm and despite his best efforts to make the Friday night curfew, the line was too long and at 7pm, within only a metre of the cut off point, we were turned away :(
On Sunday we headed out to the Lee Valley VeloPark at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park for the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. As Roslyn's work is a major event sponsor, she picked these tickets up for free. We watched on as the athletes fought it out for the final qualifying points ahead of this years Rio Olympic Games. Having not previously considered cycling to be a particularly interesting sport to watch, we actually found it quite exciting to be there amongst the crowd.
Highlights for the week:
- Purchased tickets to Wimbledon
- Booked Greek summer holiday for Roslyn's birthday
- Saw the Candy Crush jumping castle
- 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
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