What a day that was

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I know I've written several times about London 2012 but I hope you'll forgive me this one more time because today we've been to the Olympic Stadium to watch the Paralympic track and field events and I just wanted to share this with you. What a day that was, absolutely brilliant. Apart from the fact that it must have been the hottest, sunniest day for weeks, the events and the athletes themselves exceeded everything we expected.

We left home at 6.45am and arrived at the Park just after 8am

 

 It was such a thrill to actually be on the site after walking around the perimeter several

 times over the last six months

And to see the Olympic flame gave me goose-pimples

 



All of the events were spectacular and as we were in row 17 had marvellous views of them all. Just high enough to be able to see the whole arena in comfort, especially these Javelin throwers.



 

and the runners

 

After our session we joined the other hundreds in the sunshine

for a spot of lunch

 

I think I was so excited about getting to the park first thing that I failed to see the hundreds of wild flowers that had been sown along the banks of the walkway and spotted on our way back to the station.

 

 



 

The helpers, volunteers and staff were wonderful - so helpful. In fact as we stepped outside the station at West Ham this morning, we were astounded at the amount of helpers standing along the walkway, guiding and showing people the way to the Olympic Park. There must have been 70-80 along the way -a walk of about 30 minutes, all with happy smiling faces and wishing everyone a lovely day. So much thought, effort and organisation has been put into the whole spectacular event that was London 2012.

 

So proud to be British

 



 

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