Milano, pt. 1

Saying goodbye to mom at the SF Airport

After a very long day of travelling we settled into our hostel in Milan and promptly showered off the smell of airplane and took nice long naps. After the much needed rest, we decided to go walk the city. We found the Duomo (it's gorgeous) and walked around town. We got a little lost, but we didn't really care. Around the city center Milan is pretty beautiful, especially on all the little back streets. Then we found a little hole-in-the-wall gelato shop, I got coffee gelato and Luke got lemon. They were delicious.

The Duomo

Mmm, coffee gelato...

We promptly followed it up with pizza at a little nautical-themed restaurant. It was also delicious, but I was used to ordering pizza at american restaurants (aside from actual pizza places) where you order a pizza and when it comes out it's only a 4" mini personal pizza. So I ordered us each a pizza.... and they were enormous. Like, we each had an ENTIRE pizza to ourselves. We didn't finish them, which was disappointing because apparently Italians don't do take home boxes for leftovers.

First Italian Pizza!

But while we were at the restaurant it started raining outside, followed by lots of lightning. By the time we got out to walk back to our hostel it was POURING. Like, little lakes in the street, golfball-sized raindrops on your face kind of pouring. And it was warm out. So we pretended to love being soaking wet and ran through the rain screaming and laughing. Luckily, our Hostel was only a block away but by the time we got there we were positively drenched. Everyone inside the hostel was nice and dry and they all gave us funny looks when we walked in. Oh well, it was worth it.

We're going to explore the city more tomorrow, but we're both really excited to get to Florence and unpack our things in our very own apartment.

But mostly, I am excited to get a hair-dryer.

More tomorrow. Ciao!