I had physio in the morning, but then since I'd taken the whole day off of work, I went shopping afterwards, and got myself two nice lace dresses, at least one of which I can hopefully wear to an upcoming, "Leather and Lace" party I'm going to.
In the afternoon, I met my friend, Scottish Guy, for drinks at a pub near Hyde Park. We had drinks while we waited for a few others to join us, and then we made our way over to Hyde Park for the event itself.
As we were standing in line, I got a call from the Young Dutchman, calling to share the exciting news that he'd been offered the job at Google! Admittedly, I hadn't worried about him at all from the moment I'd heard he'd gotten an interview, for he can talk anybody into anything. But was very pleased for him, he sounded all so excited about it. Although also startled, because unless I mis-heard him, he's going to be making more money than I am! Definitely need to do something to step up my career a bit...
The experience of being at the park for the Opening Ceremony was epic, standing out in this field on this warm summer evening, the sun just setting, a light breeze blowing, and everyone standing up and singing "Jerusalem". And as thousands of voices around me sang, "In England's green and pleasant land", chills were absolutely running down my spine. Everything made me gasp, from Kenneth Branaugh reciting from Shakespeare's "The Tempest" to the celebration of the NHS. But I had to wonder, "Will anybody else from other countries know what on earth this all means?" But whatever. It was amazing. I loved it.
It sounds kind of corny, but when they were all singing "Jerusalem", all the thousands of people in the park started singing along, and there were absolute chills running down my spine as we were singing about England's "green and pleasant land." I thought the show was spectacular, and Danny Boyle should be proud of what he accomplished. I did wonder however if it was the sort of show that might appeal more to the "hometown crowd" though, as it was so thoroughly British! But I LOVED that the Queen was in on the joke with Daniel Craig as Bond, and the big with Mr Bean doing "Chariots of Fire" had me laughing my head off. It was a warm summer night, and just standing out in the park, with all those people, a light breeze in the air....utterly amazing. Definitely a moment to remember.
In fact, my only complaint about the evening was that they kept cutting out the live feed (including the parade of nations) to show concert footage from the concert we were at. Boo, put back on the Olympics! Also, we had so much to drink that I kind of lost track of things at the end of the evening, and then ended up walking around half of London with Scottish Guy at the end of the evening. It was funny, as we walked with our arms around each other, in an embrace that with any other guy would have definitely seemed like he was making a move, but with Scottish Guy, who is very gay, it was just the warm way you hang on to your closest friends. And let's face it, we were all quite tipsy!
Somehow made it home in the end, after a brilliant start to the Olympics!
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