On Thursday morning I headed up to Sheffield for work. I wasn't particularly keen to going up with, especially with London in full swing of the Olympics, but had to do it. It was just for the one night, so back Friday afternoon and decided to watch the afternoon and evening Olympic activities on the TV just at home.

On Saturday I had tickets to the Men's Waterpolo session. Originally I wasn't all that keen or excited about getting the Waterpolo tickets, but nearer to the time I'm rather happy with my Saturday tickets. Uns and I made our way over to Stratford fairly early to give ourselves enough time to make our way into the park and over to the Waterpolo arena without the need to run and not take in a bit of the atmosphere.

The arena for the Waterpolo was about a 15 minute walk from the entrance and was past the front of the impressive athletics stadium, which was fairly quiet as those events only really kicked off later in the afternoon. Our seats for the Waterpolo were fairly high up but you still got a decent view of the pool and the entire arena.

There were two games on, the first between Greece and Spain, and the second between Italy and Kazakhstan. In those two games it was Spain and Italy who came out victorious. I had never watched a full Waterpolo game before, so was half trying to figure out the rules as the games went on, but thoroughly enjoyed it, along with the atmosphere and Olympic spirit! After the two games, the rest of the day was free, you had access to walk the park and only had to leave when it shut later that evening. So we took a walk around the park, which is by no means a simple stroll - the park is 2.5 square kilometres (246 hectares) in size - the equivalent size of Hyde Park in Central London.

After orienting ourselves with the park and the various sporting facilities around the area, as well as a quick walk up the hill to the massive Olympic Rings overlooking the park, we decided to queue up for the Coca-Cola Beat Box Pavilion. The innovative Coca-Cola Beat Box enables people to 'play' the Pavilion through interacting with sounds embedded within the architecture of the building. After queuing for some time, we got inside and slowly wound our way around, played the various sound effects scattered around and eventually up to the top, where we were able to pose for a photo with a torch (apparently) used in the Olympic Torch Relay throughout the UK.

Once down from the Beat Box, we made our way over to Park Live, a dedicated area for up to 10,000 fans at a time with giant screens and picnic lawn. With it being such a good afternoon, we spent some time lying around on the grass embankment watching the athletics on the big screen there. By now, Team GB were doing fairly well with their medals tally, starting off with gold in the men's rowing that morning, followed a few minutes later by the women's rowing and then later on by the cycling in the Velodrome, and so the name 'Super Saturday' came about, as that was just the start.

We landed up sitting in Park Live for a good part of the evening, watching the next lot of medals come in for Team GB, which were from Jessica Ennis in the athletics, Greg Rutherford in the long jump and finally from Mo Farah in the spectacular 10,000m. That final race had the crowd on their feet - I can only imagine what it must've been like to have been in the stadium. You could certainly hear from from where we were, so the atmosphere in there must've been incredible. Still, with a full crowd on the grass at Park Live it made for a brilliant day - Super Saturday indeed! After the end of the athletics, we headed around to the bar arena, and landed up chatting to a few people there, some who had been there the whole day and others who just had late entry tickets and were wondering about, checking out the park. We probably only ended up leaving the park around midnight, after a full and exciting day out there.

Yesterday morning was a fairly early start and over to London Bridge and down past the Monument to watch the Women's Marathon as they headed past. The starting point was the Mall, then it would be four laps around town and finally, after 42km, ending up again back at The Mall. We figured the area there by the Monument would be a decent viewing spot along the fairly straight section, and even though it was fairly miserable weather and raining, it still didn't stop a good number of people coming out to support the women as they ran by.

It's a pity the weather wasn't a bit better for the marathon, but still had a good half day out there watching them loop round a few times. Afterwards, we waiting for some time outside The Walrus and Carpenter pub until the weather cleared, then headed over the bridge to Potters Field near to Tower Bridge which had a large screen showing the Olympics. There were a good number of people sitting around there watching the afternoon's sporting activities, with Ben Ainslie winning a gold in the sailing and followed by Andy Murray (eventually) winning his gold in the tennis!

The atmosphere in the field there was once again fantastic with everyone getting behind both the sailing and the tennis, and even with a bit of rain (typical British summer I guess), it didn't really stop people from getting into the Olympic spirit. After a full day of Olympics, we decided to head home once the tennis was done. At least there's another full week of the Olympics still to come, and then the Paralympics after that as well. Definitely loving London at the moment :)