Wimbledon - Day 4

Well, I should have known better. I couldn't spend two weeks in England and expect to miss rain. It washed out all but the about 40 minutes of play yesterday. In the end, however, nothing really changed and everything is still moving forward in the elegant, traditional manner befitting the event.

I did get to go to the roof garden, which is directly above our basement location. What a sight. I will have to try to get up there when it isn't raining to take some pictures. Just a lovely explosion of colors (all Wimbledon friendly) and rolling hills, grass and tons of people. Even Wimbledon has put in the giant screen TV to allow folks that cannot get tickets to Centre Court the opportunity to watch the matches on the lawn inside the grounds.

Otherwise, it was a very nondescript day. We walked out of work up the hill and to the village for a pint back at the Rose and Crown. It was packed to the hilt with what appeared to be mostly people working the event (and it seemed like more than half were IBM on top of that.) The bar scene there makes me feel old. Drinking age is 18, but some of the boys looked younger, and quite a few of the girls there had to be younger, either that, or I became an old fart without even knowing it. Either way, it was too collegiate for me, and I was glad we were heading to dinner, although later than I would have liked (it was almost 10PM before we sat for dinner.)

Dinner tonight was Indian. We went to The Rajdoot Tandoori Restaurant and I had yet another awesome Chicken Vindaloo. The Indian food outside the U.S. is significantly better in my opinion, though I won't stop going in the states, I just need to learn to ask for them to add some spice, as the heat factor here is more in line with what I would expect. Awesome dining overall.

I was dragging a bit of butt when we got done with dinner so I basically went straight to bed. That makes for a pretty short post, unfortunately for my readers. :-)

Cheers!