First Game Tomorrow

So, tomorrow marks the official start of our tournament opening up with Kazakhstan (and no Borat is not on the team)!  I'm super excited to start playing games because we have spent enough time now playing against each other.  

Training here in Rome has been going well so far, but some of the training pools are quite a distance away (or at least it takes forever to get there, I'm still having trouble switching between km and miles.... stupid metric system, not to mention they run on military time and use celsius!)  Most of the pools are outdoors and apparently the sun is just as bright here as it is at Los Al because boy did I get a bit of a burn today!  Oh well... one of the pools is next to a kennel of some sort (we're still wondering if they have dog fights over there) because seriously the entire practice you can hear at least 5 (usually more) dogs barking at a time, weird and annoying!  Other than that not much new to report, the food is good, rooms are nice and clean, and hey games start tomorrow can't get much better than that :)