Totally Awesome Olympic Closing Night !!

How proud I felt last night watching with joy at the dramatic, entertaining and awesome Olympic Closing Ceremony.  Totally Tremendous !!  Here are some highlights -

Oh What a Night at The Olympics !!

Jessica Ennis winning gold in the heptathlon at Olympic Stadium 

Greg Rutherford wins Gold Medal n the Men's Long Jump

Mo Farah wins at 10,000m

The Olympic Opening Ceremony - Proud to be British

The Olympics have started after what can only be described as 

the most incredible Opening Ceremony EVER!! 

 What a great job by everyone, you have done Britain proud!!

Olympic Guard of Honour by Proud Mom

So it was a proud mum this morning as I waved my son off with several other lucky children and teachers from his school to be official Guards of Honour at the Olympic opening Ceremony tonight.  An unbelievable experience for any child and I just so wish I could be there with him.

2,000 schoolchildren from schools across the UK will form a Guard of Honour to line the route as athletes make their way through the Olympic Park into the Olympic Stadium, for the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony.

The Guard of Honour schools have been selected through the reward and recognition programme of Get Set, the official London 2012 education programme. They have demonstrated a commitment to living the Olympic and Paralympic Values and incorporating them into their school lives and curriculum.

At the start of the Athlete’s Parade, during the athletes’ procession from the Olympic Village to the Olympic Stadium, the Guard of Honour will line the route, holding lanterns and banners they have created to support each of the 204 competing teams. The 250 schools forming the Guard of Honour will support one of the teams that they have chosen to learn about, my sons team is Holland (although obviously we live in the UK).

As well as having the opportunity to cheer on the world’s best athletes and be part of a global moment, the schoolchildren will also get the exciting chance to tour the Olympic Park and see some of the London 2012 venues before the world turns its attention to Danny Boyle’s Olympic Games Opening Ceremony in the Olympic Stadium later that day.

The Athletes’ Parade will see the participating teams enter the Stadium, nation by nation. Teams enter in alphabetical order, according to the language of the Host Country and IOC protocol order apart from the Greek team which enters first for the Olympic Games, and the team of the Host Nation (Team GB), who enter last.

The television is set for tonight as we watch with pride, hoping to see a slight glimpse of our son in the many thousands of people that will be there.  A unique experience he is hopefully never going to forget.  

Well done son xx

Billingham, UK, welcomes the Olympic Torch

We've all been waiting for the day to finally arrive and it certainly did not disappoint !!

We started the afternoon off at our local school for their Olympic Torch Event, picnics, brass band and an entertainment duo.

Then it was time to start to line the streets !!

    

 The sirens are heard and the Olympic procession starts

 

First glimpse of the torch approaching :-)

The torch handover !!

And it goes onwards onto the next lucky town.  Amazing !!

The afternoon treat ended with the releasing of the charity fundraising balloons for a young boy from the school who is seriously ill, we wish you all well Jonny xx

Brilliant !!

The Olympic Torch is nearly here !!!

 

We're all soooo excited as the Olympic Torch will be coming to are area on this Sunday !!
It's also Fathers Day in the UK so we will be enjoying a nice picnic beforehand with some Olympicy Fun before the main event starts !!!!!!

The lucky Torch Bearers for our town are

 

The youngest of these is Sam Dixon at the young age of 14.  "Due to Sam's outstanding sporting achievements he was nominated, by his school, for the 'Teesside Schools' Sports Award'. Sam was shortlisted for an exemplary sporting achievement award on Wednesday 9th March 2011 but, what Sam actually received was Teeside Schools Sports Council, Sports Personality of the Year 2009-2010 . The award was presented by Gary Pallister, former Manchester United and England star and TV Football pundit. Sam was nominated due to his successes in swimming, one notable success was becoming Scottish National Champion for his Butterfly."

Hoping to take plenty of photos.

 

Olympic Torch Relay Route - check the route every day

You can visit the Olympic Torch Relay interactive map every day to find out where in the UK it will be carried through.

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