Tears for Murray

Chris and I were fortunate enough to get tickets for the tennis Men's final at the Australian Open.  We had been to the tennis the week before and seen Murray play on the Margaret Court Arena and we were hoping that he would get through to the final...  When he did there was lots of celebrating in our house followed by a shopping trip for blue and white face paint!

On the day of the final, I painted a couple of Saltire flags on my face - I had planned on going for the full Braveheart look but it was way too warm to do that! So I settled with a couple of small flags and the Lion Rampant wrapped round my shoulders....  We also took a Saltire to wave....

We went and saw the mixed doubles final before the men's final....  This game was ok - nice and quick - just the best of 3 sets...

And then it was onto the main spectacle! Luckily we were surrounded by lots of other Scots so there was lots of shouting and support for Murray and only a few for Feds.....The atmosphere was fab and lots of people were hoping that Murray would finally win his first Grand Slam...

 Disappointingly this was not the case - this time!  He has really came on as a player though so hopefully it will be soon.....  He also endeared himself to the crowd with a wee bit of a cry when he had to give his speech...  fingers crossed for next time Andy!