Oh wow

Milan has been a weekend of crazy shit. I did things I have never done before and will never do again if I get a say in it.... dancing on a bar being that. And then being stuck on trains for hours because some dumb-ass jumped out and landed on the tracks. 3 hours of peaceful AC turned into 7 hours of sweltering hell! I t was awful! First our train stops, and forty minutes later we learn why, and hour after that we are told (by some really nice passengers who realized we didn't speak Italian) that we had to haul our junk and hike to another train that would take us to a train station, where we were put onto another train that had a lack of AC (keep in mind our feet are hot and swollen from wandering around Milan for the past 2 days, not to mention that hostel living renders you smelly and sticky gross) but a nice Italian woman gave me her seat about half way through the trip so I got to rest my feet. The we finally get to our connection station where we stand in a long line to find out if we need to get a new ticket or if we can exchange ours for a new train because of what happened to find that all trains are 2:45hr late because of the shenanigans pulled but the jumper. But there was this pissy guy in the line telling us things in Italian, pushing his luggage into our feet to make us walk forward and shouting "Vai! Vai! Vai!" (Go! Go! Go!) right before a teller was open for us to talk to. What a jerk. Then we couldn't find gelati, so we found our port and I left determined to find some, succeeded and met a Texan who looked as flustered and worn out as I was. Then once we finished our gelati we were being hustled by 2 Italian boys who wouldn't take a hint. It's funny, because Teena is usually all over the regazzi, but she was having none of these two, it's how worn we were. But our next train had AC, had foot space, and didn't have any jumpers! Thank, freaking GOD! It was ridiculous.

Oh, did I mention I broke my camera the night before we left so I spent almost all of the time I was in Milan camera-less? I finally bit-the-bullet and got a camera I would never have bought in any other circumstance. But I have to have a camera. I do. But it cut me deep. I miss the old gal. She is so awesome.... I'll have to take her to the camera hospital once I am back in the states!