The Greatest Experience Ever!!!

Tuesday 14^th August 2012

The final day for sorting out the Athletes with the last of the Days tickets and in came Greg Searle, bronze medallist for Sailing in the Mens 8. I had promised him that if I could get him a ticket for the final of Anthony Joshua's Boxing Final then I would. Negotiation skills to the ready and I managed to source a spare ticket for him. Bless, Greg was so grateful not only did I get a kiss from him but he asked if I wanted a picture with his Medal...Well it would only be fair if he was in the picture with me and his 

Medal wouldn't it??

The Legend there is, the one and only Ben Ainslie who rocked up at the Athletes Village for the Closing Ceremony on Sunday to carry the Flag and I (looking dishevelled and wind swept) got to take him to his room and have that all important chat with him..

For those that know me I am never short of something to say… but right now as I write this block I cannot find the words to say how truly blessed I am to have been given this once in a lifetime opportunity to represent Kraft at the Olympics.

The final day of the Closing Ceremony saw myself and the rest of my team on a very important mission, in fact I would say this was by far the most import task of the whole of the Games….

We had this great Company (Kraft of course) that looked after each Athlete, by giving each and every one of them a 1KG of Cadbury Dairy Milk!! So what you might say, but this was not no ordinary bar of 1KG Bar, no, in fact each Bar had the Athletes name on the cover of the bar. What a genius idea and well thought out with a very personal touch to each person..

This took us an extremely long time to put all Sports and all Athletes in order, but as we did for the last f 5 weeks, we pulled as a great team and got the job done.

After doing the Chocolate bars we were called up to a meeting with the Chef De Mission, and Deputy Mission Andy Hunt and Mark England and some of the GB Staff and officials. After a heart felt  presentation, thanking us all for the best Games Ever for them and the hard work we put in to help make the Athletes, officials, staff and everyone we were in contact with, all 12 GB Games Makers were presented with a London 2012 Closing Ceremony ticket bought by them as a special Thank You. 

Lordy, Lordy we were all stunned, speechless, and totally surprised, never did we think that we could have been gifted with such a gift. I was so over whelmed. As a team we had all decided to go to a pub and watch the Closing Ceremony on the Big Screens, as we had already in the week told we had been invited to the GB Athletes After Party at Midnight. On top of this we were given a GB Goodie Bag with lots of top branded products. What fantastic gifts!! I know my three Chrildren, Nathan, Romayne and Savannah will have a field day going through that lot and bagging what they want...

We had a quick scramble to get changed to get ourselves over to the Ceremony, changing in the officials apartments. 

The Ceremony was absolutely brilliant, we had such a great time and we still had the After party to go to, things couldn't get any better...

Ok the Ceremony done and a quick scuttle back to the Village for a party!!  It was great to see the athletes relaxed and able to really enjoy their success.  I was given the task by my team  to talk to as many of the Athletes as possible in order for them to get  pictures taken with them… So a task that was too easy for me, so my mission  was well and truly complete and my team went away with some great shots and smiles on their faces..

Oh yes I still had some pictures I still wanted to take so it was happy snapping as I drank Team GB Limited Edition Coca Cola.  There was one person who I wanted a picture with and that was our very own Mo Farrah. Conrad Williams, 400M, Pops Mensha Bonsu, Basket Ball. Dwain Chambers 100M. As yo can see I was in my element..

Great to see my lovely Team having fun themselves after all the hard work everyone had done over the last few weeks, but while they had a few drinks (maybe even a few more than they ought to), we knew there was still the checking out of ALL Athletes and Officials the next morning at 8am, slight issue some of us rolled out of the party at 4.45am... Wow you may say, but some of the others rolled out at 6am.... OOPS Tomorrow was going to be fun.