Reflections & thoughts

I had a great time here at the Games, overall it was very organised but sometimes they were too organised, some of the officials had no idea how to think for themselves, they all just taught to obey, examples When there was a big queue for the security they had no concept of trying to get the people into the venues quicker, there procedures were just mundane, the kids serving at the food counters, there 6-8 people but only 2 people got served at a time, they had 1 person taking your order, 1 taking the money and 1 getting the stuff and 1 person just being there.

At the sporting venues you couldn't take food or drink or any liquids into the events, I couldn't even take in an empty water bottle or my eye drops, the security basically padded you down before entering the area.

Yes there were lots of empty seats at events which frustrated us spectators, they would bring in rent-a-crowd now and then to fill up the space, you couldn't get tickets to the Tennis but you see empty stands when watching it on TV, I think London will fix up this problem. Also there was a lot of unused areas for media & VIP, London said they will sort this out as well, at the Basketball 80-90% of the crowd sat in the rafters. For a basketball session you get 2 games, Australia played 2nd in most sessions so we get the 'A' tickets of the supporters leaving after the first game, also we would use old tickets to get into the A area.

I will miss the 25-50c ice creams, very cheap, drinks were cheap, I didn't get any but beers were about $1 a can, food was very cheap, 2 people could eat at a restaurant for about $10-15.

I wish they had got their security & police force lessons on how to smile, they were line the subway at the end of the night as they were at a funeral, it may it a very sterile feeling.

I will probably file another set of thoughts later when I remember them