Day 106

I woke up at 8am to Jen talking in her sleep. I had thought she was talking to me, so I rolled over to listen to her, but she wasn't even awake. Now awake, I decided to check all my emails and facebook. Jen woke up, then I went to take a shower. I got dressed while Jen was in the shower, but when she came back and put her Greek dress on, she convinced me to wear mine as well. We were out of our room by 9:30 and went to the train station to buy our tickets. We went to the self-service machines and found it would cost 70 Euros for our roundtrip to Milan. We debated shortly, and just decided to go. Jen got her tickets, then we tried to get mine seated next to her. The machine wouldn't take my card, so Jen paid for them, putting me in her debt and her no longer owing me anything from paying for the room. We hurried to the platform and got on our train. We found that our seats were not near each other, but at least we were in the same coach. I sat in the empty seat next to Jen until a man came on and claimed his seat, so I returned to mine down the coach just a bit. The train was about 2-2.5 hours long. When we got to Milan, we reunited and went to Information first for a map. They told us to take the metro yellow line to the fourth stop, Duomo, because that is essentially the center of the city. Coming out of the metro, the vender men came over to us and tied bracelets around our wrists; Jen asked them if they cost anything because we didn't want them. The guy who was tying mine asked me if I was from New York, but I just didn't talk at all, I enjoy pretending to be mute at the moments. With no answer, he asked if I was from Africa. Then, he gave me an extra bracelet for the boyfriend he assumed I had and asked for a small donation. Jen and I just walked away with our free bracelets. We saw some beautiful buildings and walked through an area filled with designer stores. We decided to just wander around aimlessly and eventually found a cute little place to eat. We had pizza for breakfast again! We continued walking and found a strip of stores, still pretty expensive ones, but we also found a gelato vender, naturally, we stopped for some. Since I had tried chocolate in Venice, I decided to try a chocolate chip and cream two scoop. Cream, or Crema, was the most amazing thing to have ever touched my tongue! We walked across the street and ate our gelato sitting on the edge of the fountain in front of the palace. After eating, and being bugged by more venders, we went through the gate of the palace to take a look. Based on the time, we decided to walk over towards the park, and eventually made our way back to the train station. On the way, we stopped at this restaurant and asked if we could take away some pasta. Lucky for us, we could, so we did, and that was the end of what I owed Jen; I had paid it all off! We continued to the train station; inside, our first stop was the bathroom. Unfortunately, they make you pay to get into the bathroom, so we waited for the bathroom on the train. We boarded our train just a few minutes later. On our train, again, we were not seated next to each other, but on either side of the aisle. A happy coincidence, a couple was divided the same as us in the seats next to us, so we just switched with them. Another 2 hour train ride back to Mestre, our train station and we made the walk back to our hotel. As usual, we uploaded our pictures first thing. Hungry, we ate our take away, cold pasta, which we didn't even know what kind it was. It turned out to be eggplant parmesan we believe, and it was delicious, even cold. We watched some Say Yes to the Dress and wrote our blogs, all while I was waiting to skype my lovely boy. I even began to pack my bag. Finally, I got a call from Matt after he had returned from a hike with his mama. The sweetest boy in the world made me continuously smile. Then, Jen and I chilled before falling asleep.