Autographed Swim Caps Traded for Event Tickets

I got the whole story of how my children got the tickets to the swimming finals on Friday. They didn't win a raffle for the tickets at the Visa lounge, they won two swim caps signed by Michael Phelps. Not really what they wanted to win. They wanted tickets to an olympic event. The person that won the tickets didn't want their prize. They were/are related to an olympic swimmer and already had tickets to the swimming finals. I am not sure who approached whom but the autographed swim caps were traded for the two tickets. That is how they got to attend the historic swimming final events on Friday.

So, here are the youngest two holding the stars and strips at the top of the aquatic center before the events.

Here are photographs of each individually holding the national symbol. I think this is for each FB page. 

It's a good thing that flag isn't much wider than 5'3"(1.6m).



I don't think either of them will ever forget the events on that evening.

Not Missy Franklin's gold medal swim

nor Michael Phelps' historic 17th individual Olympic Gold Medal.


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What to Wear at London Olympics?

Weather Underground:London

As you can see from the graphic above, the temperature rose above 70ºF only eleven days in July of this year. There was precipitation every day. What do you wear in London in the summer?

If you are Australian, fluorescent clown wigs and flip flops

If Doc Brown just dropped you off, you wear your pajamas

Kathleen, Bobby and Dennis

If you are a Bobby, a hi-viz vest.

As you do if you work in the Underground

If it rains at the Olympic, a plastic Union Jack

If you're a chilled American, use your nation's flag

If you're a proud American, the Stars and Stripes

When you're at a football match of Brazil vs GB women in a covered stadium, you wear what is proper

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