Wembley, Curling and the London Tube

We started off Wednesday by heading out for a tour at Wembley stadium. We used our new oyster cards to take the tube. We then met our tour guide, Paul, who was fantastic and took us through a group tour with people from Australia, Switzerland and England. Wembley has 90,000 seats and holds events including soccer and concerts and as Paul told us, has the most bathrooms of any other stadium facility-2618. We saw England's locker room, the royal box, the media press room and took pictures with the FA cup.

After our 90 minute tour-the time of a soccer match, we headed to lunch and then back to the tubes to head back to our flats. We had a bit of a detour when we took the Picadilly circus rail the wrong way but eventually got back to the flats. At 3pm we headed back to the Faraday house to talk with Mike Gillespie. He teaches here at SU London and serves on the British Curling board and talked to us about London 2012 and then specifically talked about curling and the process of choosing athletes, funding and how a sport becomes an Olympic event. We also learned about curling-how its played on ice with rocks, how the great britian captain was 19 years old and how scotland created curling (along with scotch and golf). All in all it was a great day!

-kelsey