Another relaxing day off

Our coach has really been quite generous with the days off. I guess we have been here for over two weeks but we still feel very lucky to have a day off in order to enjoy ourselves a little bit while at the Games.
I woke up about 9:30 to get ready for a TV interview. It was for the NBC affiliate in Sacramento, where I was born, and they even let me give a "shout out" to my Grammy. Then I had a nice leisurely lunch with some of my swimmer friends like Nathalie Coughlin and Larsen Jensen both who had Finals tonight. I hope they do awesome, I'll be watching them on TV.
After lunch I headed off to get a massage in the International Zone. On the bottom floor there were pool tables, and air hockey tables and video games and a little cafe. And upstairs is the massage salon. I just had to walk up and say I wanted a massage and I got one! 45 minutes later I felt completely relaxed. I wish it was that easy back home. I might go again tonight before I go to bed.
Then we all headed out to the velodrome to watch our cycling friends in their team track race. All the tickets were sold out because the Greeks were competing in the event. So, Sara and I, being very stealth and inventive, managed to "accidentally" sneak into the venue. I still don't know how we did it, we didn't even really mean to. But it worked out perfectly and right as we walked in our team was racing. It's really a crazy sport to watch, they're basically flying around on bicycles on a wooden track, horizontal to the ground at about 60 km an hour. Not something I plan on trying anytime soon. They finished 11th, they didn't make the Finals but they were the youngest team there so they did really well.
I have to insert here an observation about European women. A lot of people ask me how they can dress in Europe so they won't look like Americans. Personally, I would just stick to looking like Americans. European women match EVERYTHING in their outfit. The woman next to us today at the velodrome was head to toe in neon orange. Neon orange pants, orange shirt, orange sandals, little orange belt, orange jewlery and neon orange hair clip. It was a lot of neon orange but I suppose she could go jogging at night and be very safe in an outfit like that.
Anyway, then we headed back to the village for dinner and e-mails. We're going to listen to my Greek hip-hop cds and play some UNO. I feel completely refreshed and ready to start our week of competing. Here we go!