Surprise surprise... our TL for the day was again Michael. we strolled down to our gates for the morning and we were on lanes C & D (I would have taken a photo but no one is allowed to take photographs in the PSA). By the time we'd had our briefing it was time to open up. Our TL had to pop off a few times and he asked me to explain the breakfast situation to all the 16 Games Makers on our team. We had a very quiet start that seemed to pick up very quickly until the point whereby no one on our team got to go and have breakfast except from those who went very early before the busy period and those who complained to Michael or myself in his absence! This was a bit extreme as it wasn't actually a suggestion from Michael, it came from the Security Group Leader for our lanes.
Anyway, swiftly moving on... after a morning of scanning tickets at the PSA, resolving spectator queries and manually entering the ridiculous print at home tickets that don't print correctly it was nearly time to think about shutting a few lanes down. Ours was a fairly quiet lane compared to others in Stratford Gate so ours started to close at 11.00am.
Before the final lanes closed there was a lady with her 3-4 year old excited son who was bought over to me by one of the other team members as Michael was busy and I had his radio - the ticket was reading as "refund" which I knew by this point meant they had been refunded and re-sold. So not to upset the little boy I offered to take them over to the Box Office to find out the whole story with regards to these particular tickets. I left it in the hands of Box Office who were trying to find any spare tickets available for them to purchase instead as they'd made their way all the way from Norwich.
After all our lanes closed we had the chance to go and get something to eat and have a bit of a sit down in the workforce break area. And as our lanes didn't open again until 3pm we didn't have to go back until then!
After lunch there was about 6 of us (Michael, Louise, Laura, Alice, Matt and myself) who went for a bit of a wonder around the park. We went into various showcases to see what they were all about in case anyone asked us. It was interesting that you can actually view the past energy data and energy consumption for each venue since it was built if that your kind of thing!? We then tried to blag our way into the Stadium, however, as boldly as we walked up to the security gates we got refused entry as our accreditation doesn't say STA (Stadium). It was worth a try though as you never know! Hopefully closer to the last day the games makers will get a chance to go and view it inside. Well those who haven't had a chance to get tickets anyway. Then we went and had a bit of another sit down, this time in the public areas near Park Live. This was good, we got to see various sporting events on the large screen. By this time it was getting closer to 3pm so on our way back towards our team leader we stopped off at the Coca-Cola pin trading centre. Now this was a whole new experience! We are new to the whole pin thing, however, we had a brief explanation inside as to how this works so we got going. We selected 2 pins each and I chose one of the Velodrome and another one of me holding the Paralmpic torch! :-) (photo above) On the way out we said goodbye to a couple of people and that was us done for the day. Until tomorrow....
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