Playing Catchup

I haven't had the time to update in a few days or so, so I'll play catchup here and post the happenings and pictures from the past 4 days.

Sunday - 2/12 - Torino

Sunday was an early morning again. Not 4:30 early, but 6:30 early after a late night. We took the train to Torino again and spent the morning walking around the city. We walked through the huge plaza where they are filming the Today show. Medals Plaza, which isn't too far away from there, was closed off until the ceremonies later that night. We picked up tickets to women's 3000m speed skating for later that afternoon and headed off to the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist, where we saw the Shroud of Turin. After seeing where the shroud is housed, we grabbed a late lunch before heading down to Oval Lingotto - the site of the speed skating.
The speed skating was a lot better than I thought. First of all, the place was about 3/4 filled with dutch people. Not many Americans were in attendance at all. The competition was pretty fierce, and the crowd really got into it during some of the better runs. The dutch came out with the gold, much to the delight of the crowd.
That night, we checked into a hotel in Torino rather than take the 2 hour train back to Milan. We were headed to Bardonecchia the next day.