Olympic games

I have really enjoyed gettting out and seeing as many Olympic events as I could.  I went down to Tower Bridge to see the Olympic torch arrive via the river on the royal barge Gloriana. Our Olympic events started off in Manchester where we watched the NZ mens team play football against Egypt at Old Trafford.  It was awesome to be able to support NZ and the team played really well drawing 1-1.  The end of the game was very intense as Egypt was trying everything to score a winner.  We also watched Brazil play Belarus afterward.  Good entertainment value for £20.

Next up was Hockey at the Olympic park. This was our only event at the actual Olympic site so we were really lucky to get tickets as this allowed us entrance to the park as well as the hockey stadium. We watched womens matches - Australia play South Africa followed by eventual gold medal winners Netherlands play South Korea.  After the hockey we walked around the park, taking in the athletics stadium, velodrome, swimming cube, bbc studio and park live where we watched live streaming of other events taking place.  We were just in time to see NZ win a bronze medal  in the rowing.

Beach Volleyball was our third event.  A temporary stadium was built in Horse Guards parade which was rather incredible.  The buildings in the background made a stunning back drop and added something to the venue. The games we watched were of a high standard as it was the mens quarter finals.  Germany beat Brazil while the Netherlands beat Italy.

Our last event was the womens football final where USA was playing Japan.  We went to a packed out Wembley where we made history by being the biggest ever audience to watch a womens football game (80,203!). The games was really intense with huge support for both teams.  USA ended up winning 2-1.  Afterwards I was a bit gutted the game was finished as it meant I had no more Olympic events to go to. 

Nathan, Aaron and myself also spent an afternoon at Kiwi House which is a support base for Kiwi fans to go along and watch NZ coverage, drink NZ beers and have a NZ bbq.  Little did we know but the day we had planned to go was the day the rowing medalists were coming down to thank and mingle with Kiwi supporters.  We scored big time with autogrpahs and photos of the athletes.  Later on during the Olympic campaign one of the bbq gas cylinders exlpoded causing a fire to break out and forced the closure of Kiwi House for a few days. 
I hope this is not the only Olympic Games I get to watch.