So I realize it's been a while since the last post and that's because not much has happened! We've mainly just been going around to the local sights. We went to London Bridge, Tower Bridge, St. Paul's, and Millennium Bridge. I stopped by Harrod's to buy some presents for people back home also we went on a tour of Stamford Bridge home to Chelsea football club. It was a pretty cool stadium. We got to go down into the home and away locker rooms and even go out right next to the pitch! Our tour guide gave us some interesting tid bits about the visitors locker room. Apparently Chelsea had a sports psychologist come in and redesign the locker room. Things like putting the small lockers for personal items underneath the benches so that the players would have to bend down to put away their stuff and could possibly pull a hamstring or tweak something before the game. Also putting in soft lighting creating a calm atmosphere so they players are more subdued when they go out. The best one was that they put the whiteboard on the wall that the door opens up on and put a sign on the door saying the door has to be left open for safety reasons. Basically this meant a right handed coach would have to stand behind the door to draw on the whiteboard and talk from behind it. Sort of funny but cheap tricks to help give them a slight edge =).
On a slightly different note I've booked travel plans to go to Rome and Dublin with Paris still being worked out! But for now that is all I have so until next time cheerio!
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