I thought it was legal here...

We just got back from winning our fourth game of the competition against Italy. We also played Japan and Great Britain yesterday. The ice is beginning to get more difficult to maintain because of the unbelievable weather here in Italy. Yesterday the temperature went up to 27 degrees celsius and today it was somewhere around 20. It seems that for every 5 degrees the temperature increases Brittany drops a layer of clothing...at the moment she is down to two (something never before seen in history... her coat was off) and we hope it doesn't get any warmer!
Yesterday was our first shopping day in Pinerolo. We had a limited amount of time so only came back with 3 pairs of shoes, 2 pairs of jeans, and 2 sweaters between the four of us...boy do we look hot! We discovered this shoe store where every single pair in it was only 20 euros...it was awesome and we took advantage. The funnest part of our shopping trip was our bodyguards which followed us a fair distance pretending to window shop or chat with each other. We got assigned undercover cops a couple days ago for extra security measures who go with us everywhere unless we are in the village. We have put them into our beginner fan club and hopefully they will graduate with our parents by the end of the competition!
On this shopping trip Brittany bought a pair of super sexy boots which she modeled for us in the change room before our game and being the insanely smooth girl she is managed to get herself stuck in the drain grate (which we had duct taped to stop the horrible stench that was coming out of it) and pulled up the rubber floor mats which are linked together like puzzle pieces. It was so bad we managed to take a bunch of embarrassing pictures because she wasn't able to get herself out. Eventually Heather came to the rescue and pulled her foot out with all her might! Too bad Captain Canada (self-appointed by Katrine's Dad) wasn't around!
That night we drove back through the Candiolo traffic circle with our police escort in tow and their lights blazing (what would an escort be called if they are behind you?). Well lets just say that was the most entertaining night since we arrived...or maybe ever. It is definitely illegal here and man can Italian women run in huge heels with giant buckets!
Today was a sleep in day which was especially nice for Hayley and Heather who the morning before managed to get up at 4:00 and be ready by 5:00 for their 9:00 game. Someone (may have been Heather) had set the clock an hour ahead without either of them noticing! So they went back to sleep for an hour fully clothed and ready to go...Hayley was not impressed. We were woken up this morning by a loud cheer from the American synchronized skating team who were doing an interesting workout/kickboxing/interpretive dance type thing in front of our building.
Tomorrow is another two game day, we play the USA and Switzerland and hopefully can squeeze in a bit more shopping!