I would of popped in for a drink last night...but to be honest I was too knackered.
My family, my good wife and yours truly had been up at the crack of dawn and were going through security at the Olympic Park by 8-15 am.
Five of us had tickets for the morning athletics session in the Stadium and the other four had tickets for a trip up the Orbit tower plus other things to do during the morning.
We all spent the rest of the day with a picnic lunch and touring around the vast complex of venues in the park.
There was entertainment around the park to watch and enjoy......a fantastic day out and quite an experience.
80,000 in the stadium plus large crowds in the Velodrome,Aquatic Centre,Copperbox Arena,Riverbank Arena (football) and something happening in the Eton Manor Stadium as well......I reckon including those that where there with just day passes ( not going to anything,but queuing for any spare tickets) there must of been at least 150,000/200,000 people in the Olympic Park.
The organization was tip-top all day.....no problems getting there,straight through security with no queuing.... plenty of toilets,food out lets,free drinking water everywhere,plenty of space to picnic in,seat and tables in plenty, the biggest Macdonalds you've ever seen,must of been two hundred picnic tables out side of it alone each with a parasol.
The stadium lived up to everything that I'd seen on TV....an incredible building with hundreds of exits...no problem getting in or out.
Left by 7pm with a smooth journey home on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) and then South East Railways...home by 8.30pm, and that was against the flow of spectators poring in for the evening sessions....thousands of them.
All the scaremongering about the chaos that would happen was all wrong.......tickets were £10 for adults and £5 for children and concessions...... a great value for a day to remember....never to be done again in our lifetime.