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Small town boy, living in the Big Apple! Recently moved to NYC to find: love in fashion, liberty in life, and the pursuit of.....all the above.

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Che il Giorno?!

What an adventure today was, part pleasant and part a disaster. We started off so beautifully, arriving at the Sforza Castle with beautiful sculptures created by Michelangelo, and some neat dinner ware. We also checked what some interesting instruments in the castle, instruments that when you see them you ask yourself, "how in the hell did they play that?!" But it was all so beautiful!

The next part of the adventure began at the Il Teatro Alla Moda....one word SBALORDIRE!!!!!! This is a theater costume museum filled with some of the most gorgeous costumes from designers such as Gianni Versace and Giorgio Armani. Looking at the pieces just same so surreal, it's you're in a dream staring at creative beauty. Unfortunately I couldn't take pictures inside the museum but check out the link below to see the creativity.

Il Teatro Alla Moda

So after the ending of the museum my group and I begin to head to our clue for the first culture assignment of the program. And that's where it began to go down hill.....First, after we arrive to where the clue was located we realized that it was right there behind the castle we were at that morning, complete OMG moment. So we take our picture with the mounment, which was the Arco della Pace. Check it out: Arco delle Pace. It was built by Luigi Cagnola in 1806 when Napoleon asked for a celebrative arch, but not completed until 1833 after the death of Cagnola.

After finding the mounment we began to head back home.....well we thought we were. As soon as we started walking the rain started....oh wait, "is that hail," why yes it is. It started to hail the size of pennies. So as we're waiting for it to stop we realize it was going to continue for a while and then booked it to the metro station. And just when we thought everything was good, we run into the Isreal protest in the metro station....and there goes our wth moment. As we're creeping pass the protest to get on the metro everyone is nervous and thinking to worst is going to happen but thank God we made it to our train and arrived to the hotel in one piece!