Allora yesterday, Kim, Stefanie, Danielle, and I took a day trip to Milan. It was great. We get to the train station at like 9:20...buy tickets for the next train at 10:14 and stand around for about an hour. Get on the train. It turned out we had assigned seats, so we're all walkin around trying to find our seats, and we're all nowhere near each other. At one point the guy across from me started talkin about something....completely in italian. I think he thought i spoke italian, cuz i just pretended like i took these trains all the time. lol. but i slept most of the ride. So we ge tto milan, and we get off the train, and we're like....now what? None of us did any research whatsoever. all we knew was that there was a duomo and shoppin cuz thats what I remembered Jess telling me once. lol. So we decide to find out what time the trains head back to florence and we bought a map. So we start headin towards the duomo. Stopped at a few places looking for som efood along the way. We were walkin along and all of a sudden danielle starts freakin out cuz we were at la scala. ..a famous theatre. so we run across the street into the piazza so we can take a picture of the building. then we ended up goin along into may favorite place in milan. Its like this covered arches thing with lots of shops. all expensive. gucci, prada, mercedes benz....so we go into gucci just so we could say we went in there, an dof course we're joking around lik estupid americans, like...i touched the railing in the gucci store in milan....anyway, so we're hungry again, of course. cuz when am i not hungry when im in italy lol....so we eat at the mcdonalds thats right next to gucci lol...it actually has a "McCafe" .... it was the nicest mcdonalds i have ever been in. so even though i just ate this sandwich and walked maybe 2 blocks. I bought a bigmac meal, and a Baci McFlurry. oh my goodness, that thing was like heaven in a cup.
But anyway. I forgot to tell you why this was my favorite place. with the shops, because clearly it wasnt for shoppin cuz i cant afford that. We walk in, and the lighting is like perfect. and there was the 4 part band. two violins and two accordians, and they were so good. Oh my goodness. we stood there for a good 15 minutes watchin them. they were young people too. probably college age. Ah-mazing. Anyway, so we get out of mcdonalds like an hou rlater.. lol. and we're right by the duomo, bu twe wanted to try to get into this museum thats across the city to see the last supper before it closes in like 40 minutes, so we decide to tackle the subway system . lol. we actually did it fairly well...i mean, we hop on it and we're like, we'll find out at the next stop if this is goin in the right direction. lol. it was. so we get there, only to find out that you have to call and make reservations to get into the museum the day before, so we didnt get to see it, which was a bummer (so now we know that we shoudl research things before we go places lol). but we walked around in the church that was right next door. Bella. an dthen we took the subway back to the duomo. Actually went in it this time. Get this. We did a day trip to milan and got to go to the service in the Duomo. lol. I mean, i couldnt understand what they were saying, but it was still awesome. the front of the duomo had scaffoldin on it still,which stunk, but we could see the top and the sides which were amazing.
so then we wen thru my favorite place - the shoppin area. made fun of some prada stuff. there were manequins tha thad like silk scarves on their heads like turbans, so kim and i had the idea to wrap our scarves around our heads, bu tshe actually did it an dstood by the window and we took pics, and people jus twlaked by and laughed at us. probably thought we were stupid americans, but va bene. lol. and then we found this thing in the place, wher eyou're supposed to put your heal and spin around for good luck, so kim di dthat. but there were tooo many people, so we just took pics of her doin it for all of us. lol. and then we took the subway back to the train station, where we rushed to buy tickets and almost missed the train. so we had to Sprint, literally, onto the train. lol. Got home an ddid some laundry. It was a fun day. We really liked Milan. and i think the fact that we just got off the train, like what now? only added to our experience.
It was a good time. Today we're gonna try to book some trips. and will just hang out cuz classes start tomorrow. I have ceramics. and then tomorrow night we have a welcome dinner. tuesday we have a predeparture meetin because we're doin the trip with the school to Venice this weekend coming up. during carnivale, so that should be awesome. And we are totally takina gondola ride. Hopefully we wont tip over or fall over, cuz all 4 of us are huge klutzes. lol...
alright, i'll write more when i have some more to write about....
ciao belli!
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Hey bella! Your journeys are just as crazy as it possibly could be in Italy! Haha. You remind me so much of The Count of Monte Cristo remember in the end when the two guys get lost in Florence and the Count saves them? haha. It was during carnivale as well. so be safe!
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