We have had a lovely summer holidays and we had saved the best till last.
Yesterday we went to the amazing Olympic Stadium to watch Paralympic Athletics.
We had a bit of a bad start to the day travel wise but once on the Javelin train things got better.
When we got to the Olympic Park we found our seats (a bit late) and I was really pleased we were sitting so close to the cauldron as it really is very beautiful.
The first race we watched was the women T44 amputees 200m. Charlie loves the ‘blade runners’.
You can’t see them as I forgot that my camera had a zoom in my excitement! You get an idea of where we were sitting. We also saw some long jumping, discus throwing, shot putting and lots of other races including very impressive visually impaired relay.
Inbetween these races were medal ceremonies for the previous nights winners. We were very fortunate to see the wonderful Dave Weir receive another gold medal. I was blown away to be standing in the Olympic Stadium with the children, belting out the national anthem as they raised the union jack. Fantastic stuff.
Emily behaved herself very well but got a bit frustrated at the end. I think she wanted to go and join in.
After a quick lunch we headed home via John Lewis (well Charlie needed socks for pe) and there we found what was probably one of the highlights of the day for the children.
The Lego Olympic stadium!!!! Charlie and Lucy could have spent hours looking at this as in the crowd were various celebrities dotted about. We found Darth Vader and Harry Potter!
We all went home exhausted which was perfect as it was the last day of the holidays, early to bed and back to school this morning.