We woke up to a beautiful sunny day in Paris; it was perfect
since we have been previously surrounded by rain for days in Amsterdam. We headed to the metro and were on our way.
Hutton would meet us later since his ticket only allowed him to enter after 3pm,
matches began at 11am. We arrive and
waited in line to get in just like any other sporting event. It was a pretty awesome feeling walking
through the gates and being handed a French Open newspaper with all the daily
action. Too bad I couldn’t read anything since it was in French, luckily the
schedule is in a universal language haha Names, times, courts. Today there
would be 4 matches on all the active courts, which was about 9 or 10 courts I’d
say. Mostly doubles matches with a few singles matches. The outside courts I mean…our
ground passes.
We
walked around and just got the lay of the land basically since we didn’t really
know who we wanted to see first. We ultimately
made it to a men’s double match cause I mean come on who doesn’t like fast
paced hard hitting men’s doubles. Sorry ladies didn’t watch much of you this
event haha. Seeing that red clay was
just something else.
I
further checked out the newspaper and finally recognized a match that would be
awesome to see,Tomas Berdych was going to be
playing on the outside court 2 (biggest court that wasn't considered a stadium
court), it was noon and he was the 3rd match to go on. (1st
match started at 11), so we figured we would go over there and watch the Men’s
doubles going on before and get good seats for the upcoming singles match. Basically what we do when we go to our
electronic concerts and want a good spot for the NEXT DJ, we sit thru the
previous act so we are all ready to go for our “favorite dj”. WELLLLLLLL let’s just say we weren't the only
ones with this bright idea.
Now let
me say first that over all the experience was awesome and once in a lifetime
possibly and Lexii and I are very appreciative that my mom bought these tickets
for my birthday. Love you mom!
With
that said let me continue with our “bright idea.” We waited just about 2 hours IN LINE outside
of court 2 just to get inside to watch. Now you would think they would have TVs
outside the courts so people in line could at least watch the match or EVEN
see/hear the score….welllllll they don’t have that. It was miserable yet awesome at the same
time. Imagine whatever the worse line at
whatever amusement park you have ever been before and you have what we waited
in. Now that being said it is still
awesome because the end result will be watching an awesome match at the French
Open in Paris…Not many get to say that.
We are 8 people from getting let in. They are basically only letting
single people in because no one I mean NO ONE is leaving the court because they
all wanna watch the matches going on. Finally
Lexii and I get in but don’t get to sit together for the remaining for the 2nd
match (Mens Doubles). It wasn’t too bad since we were about 6 seats away from
each other and were court center and 3 and 5 rows up. Being that close was so dope. Eventually the man next to Lexii left and I swooped
his spot, now being 3rd row from the court. It is now 3pm and singles is about to
begin. Originally we were going to meet
Hutton at 3 but there was no way we were going to leave these seats now and we also
had no wifi to communicate with Hutton.
We watched the first 2 sets and then it began to rain. Rain delay was in an effect. They covered that court so fast; it was
something to watch for sure. Lexii and I
totally forgot to bring an umbrella just in case and decided to leave and find
cover and hopefully hutton. We
eventually found hutton, the rain delay was over and play continued. We went
and watched a mix doubles match on a distant court and then left the French open
to head back to the hotel to prepare for the night to come.
We went
to the Latin District again and hit up many bars and got cheap drinks such as
beer and wines as we either played pool, danced, talked or even met some locals
and socialized. Once again thanks to
Hutton being able to speak French allowed so many more open doors for us. Lexii and I can handle everything on our own
but with Hutton in the group for a few days it really gave us another view on
the vacation and going out to the bars and experiencing some other aspects of
Europe. Fun night, made it to the metro in time and got home.
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