Day 10 - Hello Milan! Hello wifi! Hello stairs.

5-23

I changed the numbering of my posts in honor of the Italian (European) style of floor numbering. Every building we go to has the 0^th floor (the ground floor) and goes up from there. My favorite building had two basement level: -1, -2.

We got up for a late breakfast at 9 and then had some time to pack up before we left to parade over to the train station with our bags. We were really early again for the train but we were to Milan by 2. We then took the subway and then walked 15 minutes to our hostel. We are here and there is internet again and we are pleased.

We did go to the Duomo here in Milan and we climbed to the top. We got to stand on the roof! I got quite a few pictures. We then went inside. It was so dark inside! It’s a gothic style church and so the idea is to have these huge windows. But all of the windows have stained glass so it doesn’t actually help that much. The stained glass was super impressive though! Oh my goodness. I’m not used to it being so detailed! There was one thing that was a depiction of Revelation. Now that was intense. 

It’s one of the girls’ birthdays so we are going to eat together and then I don’t know what. I am wearing my dress. I never thought it would actually come out of my suitcase but I am tired and it is clean and I really just did not want to choose between my 4 pairs of pants.

We went out for Liz’s birthday and found this pretty nice place to eat. It was on a boat which was pretty sweet. The boat didn’t move it was just cool to be on a boat to eat. Made me think of that song for a split second. I got what looked like mac and cheese with mushrooms but it did not taste like mac and cheese to me. I really enjoy the group dinners. It's more fun now because I know more of the people and we are all starting to get used to each others' sense of humors. I am tired and we have lectures tomorrow so today's will be short-ish.