Well I certainly hope that our teams will be more impressed by the warmth of welcome given by the Manx people than they are with the dreadful weather, we are currently experiencing.
We can only hope that the forecast improves as it must be so frustrating for all the people who have worked so hard and so long to make the Games happen to have the elements knock the gloss off the everything.
Many of the athletes are arriving be sea and unfortunately are probably the colour of it but tomorrow is the day of the grand opening ceremony and competition starts seriously on Friday.
It will be an odd experience for us at the Welbeck because despite being packed to the rafters, in an effort to provide a 'Village Experience,' all their meals are being provided by one of the larger hotels, so finding customers for restaurant and bar could be difficult.
Therefore, Irene & I have volunteered to help with the athletics and will escort the runners, jumpers and throwers to their events.
Currently, we are wondering how many jumpers to wear underneath our official uniform! Oh joy.
It is no help at all and it must be pretty awful for the organisers of the U.S. Open Tennis Championships, too as yet another day is washed out but at least they get to run it every year.
I'll try and bring you some of the colour and excitement of the CYG in a later post should I avoid pneumonia.
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