Wimbledon 2007 - Day 15, July 7th

Saturday morning.  What would be the day of the Ladies Final and it definitely is going to happen.  The day is bright and sunny, with just a hint of breeze.  There will be a ton of tennis to complete, but it does appear that everything will complete tomorrow!

Forgot to set my alarm.  That meant I had to rely on my internal clock to get me up.  Oddly, it fired about 20 minutes later than the alarm, so I wasn't as leisurely this morning, but I wasn't late for oversleeping.  I chose to ride in on the 200 bus, which appears to be the least amount of walking and picks up the closest to the hotel.  I needed to see how it ran as I knew I'd be sending Colleen that way as she went back to the hotel.  It wasn't a bad ride, and dropped off just down from the Rajdoot, which meant a fairly straightforward walk to the venue.

We had a solid day of play, though I am sure that several players were complaining that they'd have two or three matches and I don't doubt there were a couple of players that were asked about possibly playing a fourth.  Still, we got out at a reasonable hour and used the chance to go back to the hotel and drop off our bags and change instead of just going out with our packs.

Called Colleen twice.  The first time after I assumed she had dropped the dogs off at the vet.  I was right.  She had just gotten back and was lounging on the couch contemplating a nap. :-)  I called her just before she was supposed to go to Chad's house to make sure she had everything.  I can't believe that she'll be here tomorrow!  I am so excited!

The decision was to attempt a pub crawl.  We stopped at most of the pubs between the hotel and the top of the hill, though admittedly we only had half pints in most of them.  We discovered the new launch of Guinness Red at O'Neills and Diageo has indicated in a press release that we found one of a very select number of locations that had it.  It wasn't bad, and honestly seemed a closer competitor to Smithwick's in terms of color and body.  Maybe it actually is, and they just felt it would be received more openly as Guinness.

Got home WAY too late to be getting up as early as I will to get Colleen in the morning, but it was fun to be able to go out and really kick up my heels.  Drifted off to sleep knowing I had set my alarm early in the morning and would be going to get my wife!!

Cheers!