…this
is a post for two separate days being that I didn’t write a post last night,
but the word is the same for both days and im guessing that it will stand true
for the next week, im so happy J….
..yesterday
morning I got up at literally the crack of dawn, actually no, it was before
dawn had even cracked….i left the house at 4:30am to go to the station and take
a bus to Milan at 5am, to get to the airport there at 7am to pick up my boyfriend, josh who had come all the way to Italy for his spring break
to see me J….needless
to say, I wish the reuniting in the airport had been filmed because I feel like
I could have been in some romantic comedy movie…seeing him was absolutely
wonderful, we have been apart for the past 3 months….
…unfortunately
his whole trip here had been quite the adventure, culminating in the sending of
his bag from JFK to Zurich instead of Milan….so well, we dealt with that being
told that they hoped it would be here by Monday….thankfully we were pleasantly
surprised when later in the day we got a phone call asking if we were home to have the
bag dropped off J…thankfully
Ely was home so the bag beat us!..
…after
we dealt with that situation, we took the shuttle into the city, got Josh his
first cappuccino, hopped on the metro and were off the duomo…
....i think from the
airport to The Duomo I said about 100 times, “I cant believe youre real, and
youre in Italy!”….i guess you could say that I was excited and happy….we took
our pictures, and went inside, and holy man is that church just massive and
beautiful J….we
marveled for a while J and then went out and walked through The Vittorio
Emanuelle II Galleria, then followed a loop over to Piazza San Babila and back
down to the Duomo….by that time we were hungry, grabbed an early lunch at Luini’s
(that pizza frite place that I had the last time I was in Milan, I love that
place)….josh was a fan J…then walked across the street to a gelato shop to
have josh try gelato….after figuring out every flavor he could have, without ya
know, dying… poor thing is allergic to nuts, in a place that puts hazelnuts in
like everything!....and he was hooked J we sat and ate and had
a grand time of that eating J….
…then
it was off to the other side of the Duomo to the castle….man it was beautiful,
we walked through it and through the courtyard to the park behind, checked out
a really cool arch, then we just sat and people watched and hung out (we had a
pretty relaxed day because josh had been flying for about 18 hours on 4 ish
hours the night before)…
...until it was time to go to our viewing of the Last
Supper….we walked over and eventually found the way (thanks map!) and were
right on time so we got to go in relatively soon J….we went in, each time
they put us in a new room you had to have the doors seal then change the air
before the next doors would open….so werid but when we walked in….holy cow,
that painting is massive and amazing! We got to sit in there for our allotted
15 minutes…and we simply marveled J….so cool to have seen
in person….
…after
the Last Supper, we got my poor companion another caffe to wake him up a bit….then
it started raining so we bought an umbrella from a street vendor and were off
to find the nearest H&M to buy Josh some clothes to make it through until
(we thought Monday) his bag got here….since it got here and we bought it now
for no reason, he calls them his fashion clothing…nut ball….following, we
walked around in the rain a bit before we found this little room that had some
beer on tap, so we grabbed a couple and sat in one of the rooms and just talked
for a while J…a
great way to spend the rain filled hour or so of the afternoon…finally it was
time to grab some sandwiches for dinner, then to the train station to catch a
nap back to Torino…
…today
was supposed to pour all day long, thankfully it didn’t, so Josh and I spent
the morning sleeping in and then we got to watch Frozen (because some nice
boyfriend bought and brought me the English version from the states J)
which was so so so exciting J….afterwards, we were off to show him downtown and
some of my favorite places when it wasn’t raining, and then we were off to the Egyptian
Museum….
….it
wasn’t enourmous, but it was really cool….apparently this one, in torino is the
best in the world behind Cairo….it was a perfect thing for a Sunday afternoon….
....when
we finished we metroed back and went to the grocery store pick up a few things
before coming home, and saw that it had finally cleared up enough to see the alps so we went up on the footbridge and even got a glimpse of the Matterhorn :)….my host family had gone out to eat tonight with friends, so
took the opportunity to use some of those skills that I learned in my cuisine
class and make dinner J, risotto with saffron, capresi it was delish and so
much fun….such a great night….tomorrow is class in the morning and then lunch
out for some real Italian pizza with some of my friends, then more torino
sights, and finally, Ely is making Josh some amazing homecooked Italian food J….totally
excited, and totally happy….hope all of your days are happy as well J
buona notte amici!
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