Milan excursion!

So I officially suck at blogging..I'm sorry. I have all these thoughts, then I forget to type them..but anyway, so quite a few weekends ago now, I visited Milan! I had a friend (Davide) who lives there. The train ride there sucked!! It was about 4 hours (with a delay), and the lady across from me kept kicking me..(don't know if this was on purpose or not!) Anyway, I finally arrived! Davide and his cousin, Michela, showed me around Milan! It is such a neat city.

We started off at the Castle Sforzesco. It was really neat! Unfortunately, it cost a lot to go in, but just the facade was enough. Duomo, which is very different than the Florentine one because it is gothic not Byzantine style (pics to come later..hopefully). We also rubbed the lucky leg on the door. The door used to be bronze, but now it is faded, except for a leg. The church on the inside was fantastic! So many stained glass windows and engraved carvings. After that, we went to lunch and just walked around the city. The mall in Milan is so much nicer than any mall I've seen in the US. Since most of the places such as Dolce and Gabana, Louis Vuitton, Armani, Ferrari, etc. originated in Milan, it was cool to see those places (although the street I live on in Florence is like a mini Milan :) ) Michela had to go to work, and Davide and I just happened to stumble upon a nature museum, which was free at that time! It was cool. There were old rocks, gems, old skeletons, and things like that.


I went back to the hotel and just hung around there for a while, then met up with Davide and Michela and a couple of their other friends. The drinks in Italy are strong! I decided to try a long island, tequila sunrise, and peach daquiri, all of which were very good. It was fun to go to a non-American place. Not that I have anything against Americans (haha as I am one), but I felt much more Italian hanging out with Italians, talking in English and Italian, and being in a more Italian environment. It was really fun. I just spent one night there, then I went back to Florence.