Pinzolo, Aug. 17th, 2003

This year I had also planned a second visit to the summer tour... just a few days later I was heading all by myself to Pinzolo! It felt stange to be leaving for the mountains all by myself, without my group of friends.. but I had arranged to meet an high school classmate who had a mountain home there, so I was not 100% alone! She had also booked me a room at a hotel, and I spent quite a bit of time with her chatting in the morning, and at lunch with her family. In the afternoon I preferred at some point to head for the rink to wait for the arrival of the skaters (I was in phone contact with Mauri), to see the practices, etc. I actually had asked my friend to stay with me (it would be something new for her to see some good skating!) but she had a walk planned with her family, so I basically found myself all alone for some hours, waiting outside the rink. At some point I was staring to feel quite embarassed, with the rink's staff looking at me suspiciously... Fortunately the whole cast arrived soon, with Babi welcoming warmly and taking me into the rink with her... the staff had nothing to say at this point! Bonus point for this show: gorgeous John Zimmerman had arrived today to spend a week on tour with Silvia Fontana, before heading to Rome for their upcoming wedding. My eyes were happy!! I also enjoyed seeing the practices, and chatted backstage with Babi and Sissi (I had also brough a big box of fresh figues I had taken from my tree that very same morning, and she loves those!!)... I realized I must have been mistaken as someone from the tour staff by the rink people (probably because I was wearing the same kind of black puffy vest they had on - but that was a total coincidence!), especially when some guy asked me to bring some water into the ladies' dressing room, because he was afraid of them being half naked! In the end, I found myself staying on the hockey benches to see the show as well (though my friend had bought me a ticket for the tribunes), which was very good fun.. I enjoyed being in the center of the action, it felt a bit like when my theater's group is performing...
As usual the numbers were enjoyable, and I had fun... I lost a bit of time trying to take pictures of John (but they didn't turn out well), or chatting with Diego (Babi's husband), but I can say I generally enjoyed myself very much! I saved only a few pics...

Pinzolo's public partecipated with enthousiasm -
as Francesca, dancing to "YMCA" in the finale...