Visiting the Olympics and Paralympics

We were very fortunate to get tickets to a number of events at the Olympic and Paralympic games.  Tim went to the badminton and hockey events with Jay, because that was a long day finishing in an open-air arena, but Justine and Nicholas went with Tim to the handball, volleyball, table tennis, swimming, athletics, sitting volleyball, and wheelchair basketball.

The atmosphere at the games was amazing, particularly whenever there were British participants.  Unfortunately we saw the British volleyball team lose, but Ellie Symonds won gold and a number of the Brits got to the finals of the athletics.  Even when the participants were from other countries with few supporters, the crowds were cheering everyone on.

We’re not sure Nicholas appreciated the hoops that we had to go through to get into the park and to make sure he was able to attend, though …