Day 5

Volleyball Court

Keeping up with the blog is becoming difficult with only so many hours in the day but I'm not going to miss a beat!  Fred, Bill (floor expert) and I gathered a good group to head to Score and finish putting the volleyball floor together.  I'll be honest, setting up a volleyball floor is not one of my favorite setups.  It's actually quite intricate and time consuming.  For lunch we grabbed some pizza.  The sign on the building read, "5p for large pizza."  I pointed it out and someone responded, "A five pound pizza?  Wow, that's a lot of pizza."  It actually wasn't the first time someone had mistaken the currency for weight.  We knocked out the final touches of the volleyball court that afternoon and now Score was nearly fully set up minus the other court that would arrive later.  The judo ring, the boxing ring, and the volleyball court were complete.  

Score - Training Site for volleyball, judo, archery, and boxing

Tower Bridge with rings down

One of the ladies who operates Score, Linda, was awesome in making sure we had everything we needed.  She also was great to talk to about the British culture and gave us information on food, language, places, etc.  I gathered a group upon returning to Score to head out and see some of the city and grab a drink.  It seemed great for a lot of the group to get off the campus since they had not had as many travel opportunities around the city a few of us had by working in many locations to this point.  We ventured over to Tower Bridge which is a direct shot on the DLR.  The walk across the bidge was even better this time since the rings were down and the night was setting in.  Everything was lit up.  Of course it was raining.  That has become very common I've noticed so far.  We ended up at a place called The Draft House.  They had a pretty extensive list of beers available.  I tried one called Camden Pale Ale and I must say it is probably my favorite up to this point.  After a while the rest of the group decided to head back except for Rob and I.  We wanted to scope out a little more of the city.  It's uncertain how many opportunities there will be once the Games begin.  Plus, It would be good to have explored most of London by the time work is done so that I don't need to spend any of my extra time seeing things here.  After a couple stops we realized the time was getting late and heard the trains stop soon we were flying up and down escalators trying to figure out how to connect to get back.  Luckily a guy put us in the right direction and we made it to where we needed to in the nick of time.    A days worth of hard work and some time to enjoy the city as well.  Success!

Days left until Olympic Games: 14