February 2nd 2024

This last weekend was the first trip I went on out of Copenhagen! It was super exciting for me since I have never been to Europe. We chose Milan about a week and a half ago after deciding going to see the northern lights was too expensive 😔. We were in Milan for a total of 39 hours and we made the most of it by only sleeping a total of 10 hours the whole trip 🫣. We arrived in Milan on Friday night at around 9:00 and then took a bus to the city center which was another hour. Once we got to the city center we met up with Ishika and found a place to eat dinner. We walked to Osterio De Fourtunada and upon arrival the host asked us how many in our group and we said 7. He got a little nervous and ended up calling their other location that was 10 minutes away because there were bigger tables there. He ended up getting us in at that location so we made our little trek over there. Once we arrived we were sat down immediately which was so incredible. We were all starving since it was almost 11:00 at this point and the smell and look of the homemade pasta just made all of us sooo happy. They gave us some delicious bread as an appetizer and we ordered our pasta (I got the Cacio e pepe (pictured below) and it made my tummy so happy (or so I thought)). We finished dinner around 12:00 and we set out to find a sweet treat... there were none to be found 😭 at least not nearby at open at 12:30 in the morning. We decided it was in fact time to head to our airbnb so we started heading toward the big M that we all know as the metro. We made our way over to the entrance and found out it was closed for the night 😭. We ended up hopping on a cute little tram and made our 40 minute way to the airbnb. Luckily we were all full and excited for the next day that we were not yet grouchy with each other 🤭.  Once arriving at our airbnb it was time to figure out the bedding situation. Usually it's not too hard to figure out where people are going to sleep... but we had 7 people and only 5 real beds. After some arguing over the loft and the size of different beds we set up the sleeping arrangement. Raiden and I got the two beds up on the loft and Angela slept right below us (basically the best room ever see the pictures below). Katherine and Ishika shared the other bedroom and got the nice king sized bed. Francesca and Drew took the two couches in the living room (after Francesca felt defeated for Raiden's begging of one of the loft beds (coulda been the girl's gossip room 😔)). We ended up falling asleep around 3:00 which was a little late for me, but it was well worth it. It was unfortunate, however, because I was up an hour later with a tummy ache from the delicious pasta 😔. Not only did I wake up myself, but I ended up waking up Raiden, Angela, and Francesca all because we were in such close quarters 😭. To be fair Raiden woke up in a panic because he left his ring in the bathroom, but he thought he lost it 😂, but the Raiden scared me because I didn't expect anyone to wake up which then made me tell him that he scared me which woke up Francesca. Then Raiden and I got back to the room and he started telling me something that woke up Angela. This lead to all of us being a little extra tired in the morning 😢. We woke up around 7:00 on Saturday and had a slow roll out of bed. Once we got going we headed to the Duomo, but first grabbed some pastries and coffee from a small cafe nearby. I got a chocolate filled donut and it was the best donut I've had in my whole life and I will be dreaming about it for the next rest of my life 🤤. We then went to the Duomo and walked on the terraces and explored the Cathedral it was incredible. We got so many good pictures and the cathedral was gorgeous despite the scaffolding. After the Duomo we walked around the area for a bit and took a look at all the designer stores. We found some sandwiches for lunch and they were so good, but my stomach was hurting so bad after the coffee 😤 I ended up taking most of it back to eat once everything calmed down. We then headed to Navigli for some shopping and stopped at some tourist shops along the way. I wanted an "I ❤️ Milano" shirt, but ended up not getting one which I do regret now. For our last stop in Navigli Drew found an incredible coat that we were all impressed by and decided we should go home and rest for a little bit before getting dinner. This was a great rest and reset my tummy so I was feeling much better by the time we were ready to go out. For dinner on Saturday we headed to Testone for what we thought was pizza, but was instead this cool sandwich/pita/calzone almost instead. It was really yummy despite my initial hesitancy. Once we were done there we got some yummy crepes for dessert and went searching for a bar we liked. We ran across a nice bar after about 30 minutes of walking around and I ordered my first cocktail. It was so good it was a peach juice with vodka, lime, and a couple other ingredients (that I do not remember at all. I would recommend this place to anyone that wants to get a drink in Navigli because the atmosphere was also incredible, but I cannot remember the name 😔). We stayed there for a couple of hours before heading back to the airbnb. Again the metro line was closed so we took the tram all the way back which ended up being about a 40-60 minute journey. We ended back at the airbnb around 2:00 and had to get up at 6:45 for our flight. Honestly not much happened after that we made it to the airport way early and had breakfast there (Angela and I got our long awaited pizza and it was so good 🤤). We got on our plane and we were back in Copenhagen (home sweet home 🥰). Anyways I'll let you have a break from reading and give you a ton of pictures of our incredible weekend!!