Some little trips

So, Monday morning and we didn't have to go to work...! Yay! Even better, we were going to get to watch some tennis :) The plan was to go and find some breakfast before heading to the O2 so we took the boat from the hotel to canary wharf. We walked along and headed into a shopping centre where we found somewhere to get breakfast. The afterwards we set about trying to find the tube station :) One quick stop on the jubilee line and we were at the O2. It was much busier than last night but we had some time and so we had a look around at the various stalls (for want of a better word). We 'won' some tennis balls in a game of air hockey at the Barclays stall and got a free bag from Nissan after registering our details via a very complicated process ;) We saw Ross practicing with Louis whilst we were wandering around. We eventually decided to head into the arena to wait for the start of the doubles. Grabbed a quick drink on the way in and then took our seats. Some ...

Back in September after Andy won the US Open I decided that I had better get a move on and decide if we were going to see some tennis at the O2 this year. A quick twitter conversation followed and Jennifer and I decided that we would go....and Rob reluctantly decided to accompany us. There was no way of knowing who would be playing in which session and so we decided to go for the first session on the Monday....hoping that they would start off with the Olympic and US Open Champion....! We decided to make a weekend of it and I thought it might be nice to see the Blackpool Illuminations. So, Rob and I headed up to Sheffield on the Friday afternoon - this took us a little longer than planned as it was the end of the half term break and so the roads were quite busy :( We stayed overnight at a Premier Inn and then picked up Jennifer in the morning to head across to Blackpool. The journey to Blackpool was uneventful and we arrived at our hotel around lunchtime. The hotel only ha...