Open!

What a wonderful day and quite the adventure getting to the tournament! What should have been an hour excursion ended up taking well over 4!!!! The 'caltrans' of England decided to do road repairs the second day of the tournament, great planning.

When we finally made it to the park and ride we were relieved to get on the double decker bus quickly and get on our way. Little did we know that the bus was headed into the traffic we just got ourselves out of.

No problem, we aren't driving, out of our hands...right....until our bus driver rear ends the car in front of us in the entry to a round about. That's right BANG! So the car and the bus pull over to do the traditional number info exchange. As the driver exits the bus he tells the crowd of 70 or so people be back in a little while. At this point in our journey we are approximately 2.5 miles from the golf course and 3.5 hours into our trip.

So if no one has ever seen ticked off British and Irish people let me tell you it is entertaining. They flagged down another bus and we finally made it to the tournament.

Great story to remember the day by since no cameras allowed. We lucked out with another great sunshiny day. A little windy but for the most part awesome. We shared a shrimp and chips plate and a sausage and chips plate. Delicious. We got to see Tom Watson play, along with John Daly, Sergio Garcia, Ricky Fowler, and Rory Macelrory to name a few.

Purchased some souvenirs, had an iced hard cider and walked the course. Beautiful! But it looks very very challenging, the bunkers a ridiculous, in fact one of the stands had a mock bunker from the 17th hole you could play. Crazy!

Lots of wonderful memories from today...we are on our way to Sheffield, England right now. I will post this when we get to our next bed and breakfast, the Quarry House, looks adorable from their website.

Tomorrow at some point we head to Edinburg. More pictures from there I am sure :)

Late addition...self portrait!




- Shalyce

Location:Sandwich UK