Last Day in Milan/ First Day in Vico

Hello all!

So I've been falling behind on my blog posts. Milan was great. We stayed there for 4 days and 3 nights. I'll be honest, I can't really remember all that we did but our last day we spent walking around the fashion houses! It was great. There was this huge block of high end fashion stores that we overlooked. We walked down to where they're located and seriously, there's one block that belongs to Dolce & Gabbana. It's awesome. Each store had amazing window displays. They almost make me want to do that for the rest of my life. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures throughout our stay in Milan. I wish I had especially around the fashion houses. The people walking down the streets looked like people you see in fashion magazines and such. They all dress so fresh. The men with their light colored dress pants and light blue button up with a pair of oxfords and hot sunglasses, and the women in casual, trendy, and sassy outfits. That was great to see. I enjoyed it a lot.

Then for the evening if I remember correctly, I was in charge of picking the restaurant and I ended up taking us to this place near our hotel that was about a 15 minute walk. I'm really glad that I was being indecisive. We were able to walk on through the side of town that we hadn't seen before where there was a lot of shopping to do. In the area we found this nice little restaurant that from the outside looked tiny but when you walked in, it was huge. The food was great. Lily and I split a pizza that have arugula, mozzarella, and tomatoes. Patrick got this amazing seafood pasta that tasted great. We also ordered red wine for the table. It was a great last night in Milan.

The next day we grabbed a train in the early morning to take us to Naples to meet up with the Cortona program. The ride was a nice 5 hour ride. We stopped at several stations along the way where people got on and off. Eventually we finally got into Naples, got off the train and guess who we find? Lanny Webb, his wife, and son Patrick! We decided to follow them to get on to the next train that would take us to Vico Equense where we were meeting. We rode the train with them and met a grad student who's in the Cortona program as well.

We arrived in Vico and checked into the hotel. It was a little confusing at first. We were placed in rooms in alphabetical order. So I get my key and learn that I have 3 roommates. I go up to my room and walk through the door to find this nice quaint room. The first thing I see to my left are 2 beds that have suitcases on them already. I go in a little more to see the other 2 beds around the corner to the right and instead of 2 twin sized beds, I find this odd sofa bunk bed that looked shifty and unstable. I dropped my bags and just thought wtf, are you kidding me? Really. I have never seen a sofa bed like that before. I wish I had taken pictures but I forgot my battery charger in the States and both my batteries were already dead. This sofa bed that turns into a bunk bed was interesting though. I didn't really know which bed to take, but I decided on the lower bunk even though I was fearing that the contraption would collapse on me completely. Whatever.

I'm making this way too long. Our first night as a group was nice though. I got gelato, met up with the group at our first meeting, ate dinner at the hotel and then went to bed.