Milan may be the capital of fashion, but it was oddly the only place I saw a fair amount of Italians wearing t-shirts. Weird. 

It wouldn’t be a trip in an Italian city without getting lost, and we did, without fail…before we even found the hotel. To make matters worse, we couldn’t check in right away, but we were able to leave our bags in a back room while we explored the city in the interim. 

A small group of us decided to walked to Milan’s duomo, which was a stunning Cathedral in the heart of the city. It was a little effort to find at first, but it wasn’t all too difficult with maps and asking locals for directions.

I didn’t want to tour the cathedral itself, but I was goaded into doing so. The highlight of the journey was getting to climb the cathedral. The view(s) offered were/was spectacular. 

In a weird twist of fate, the professors were dining at a nearby restaurant, and joked about the unlikely scenario of seeing a student on the top of the cathedral. They did see a student…and wouldn’t you know it, it was me; dancing like the fool I am!