T-T-TUESDAY

NOTICE: SKYLAR HAS BEEN EXTREMELY BUSY SKATING HER BUTT OFF AND ENJOYING TO THE FULLEST THE AMAZINGNESS OF ITALY. PLEASE EXCUSE HER TARDINESS ON THE BLOGS. SHE WILL TRY TO WORK HARDER TO RECORD THE ACCOUNT OF THE TEAM IN A MORE TIMELY FASHION. THANK YOU. =]

Well this morning started out fun. Poor Erin, still bagageless. She had been up since 4 and finally called her dad around 6 not knowing what to do. He assured her they were on the way, but that's what we've been hearing for awhile now. anyways, we tried to go back o sleep to awaken at our 7.52. Well I got on the computer (big surprise, I know) and I lost track of time til about 8.20 then ran like a chicken with my head cut off downstairs. Tricia was none too happy, to say the least. I hurried and ate breakfast, which consisted of a croissant and some fruit, yum, then ran back upstairs to crawl back in the amazing, cloud-like, comfy beds. This hotel really is awesome.

Like 9.30, 30 minutes before we were going to go jog, Colby came and told Erin and I that we had to go do the elliptical and bike cause of my knees and her shoes were a couple of sizes too big so he didn't want her running in them. So while everyone else went jogging, we went upstairs and enjoyed a lovely bike/elliptical workout. I had 30 sec on 1.30 off bike sprints. Fun. After that we went back up to the room and Aly joined us for some stretching then we sat down to enjoy some peace and quiet before lunch.

There are only 3 channels that are English, and that's Bloomberg, CNN, and Some resort channels. So because we didn't want to know about the stock market and exotic places we couldn't go to, we chose the news, which was fairly disappointing too along the lines of all we saw was Hilary and Obama and the primaries occurring in New Hampshire. So we kept that on, but mostly traded off turns on the computer.

Lunch was the first time we got to see the other teams, but only Canada and Korea joined us. And the general conclusion about both were that the Canadian boys are very funny after they're comment of " we a' 'ungry" in a very cute French-Canadian accent. And the Korean girls look 10. No lie. The food of choice was , you guessed it, pasta. And bread. And like Salisbury steak, not so good. But the food seemed to be getting much better, as in the things athletes need, so it was exciting for us.

After lunch we headed upstairs for a needed nap and then I woke up a little early to sharpen the blades and get ready for the ice practice that we shared with Italy. first time on the ice and first time seeing what other countries brought to the table! We left for practice at 5 but we did a bit of a warm up of jogging, stretching, and watching the Koreans who had the ice before us. Oh and member those 10 year olds? Yeah, they did a 8.8 and kept up with their boys. All of our mouths were open. Trust me. So we got on the ice, minus Erin as she still didn't have her bags, therefore no skates. The rest of us did warm up relays, and then we did 2x10 laps slow and 2x15 even slower. And were struggling in the mid elevens. At least us girls were. Yay for new ice. Lol. There was a resurface and we had to get off and jog then get back on and do some crazy 3 person passing drill. Walter biffed it within the 1st lap. He was fine but we sure got some looks from the Koreans that were cooling down. I mean Walter gets looks anyways, just from his size, but that's another story. After that we got off the ice and cooled down and headed back to the hotel.

Dinner that night was some sort of salmon pasta dish and veggies. As I said, getting better. dinner concluded with some people getting work from Colby, including me for me knees, and a couple others engaged in a lovely, relaxing, soothing ICE BATH. Yeah.

Afterwards Aly stayed in the boys room and played some cards, Erin and I talked to the boyfriends, and then Aly came into the room when we were almost asleep, and we for some reason fed off her extreme hyperness and stayed awake til 12 and at one point there was jumping on beds between gossip stories! We are having a blast! Stay tuned more to come!