and italy came to an end

last day was a good one...we got up early enough to pack all of our things and then since it was sunday had a short everyone share their favorite scripture time. lovely. we headed out around 10 with our backpacks and all...headed to the Duomo, the beautiful cathedral for a last photo shoot. the crazy bracelet and bird seed guys were there flocking the courtyard, but since we were pros, we didn't fall for it this time!!

enjoyed the Duomo

this is only the door...do detailed and incredible.

right?

we took a tram back to this area that was close to the train we needed to take to the airport AND we hoped maybe there would be some flea markets out that way.

turns out we didn't find any markets...but DID find our way back to an incredible ice cream place that we had visited earlier! worth it.

we just loved that it told us down to the half minutes how much longer we had to wait.

we don't get such luxuries in berlin.

hah this candy looks great, right?
colorful. delicious.

WELL tracy got a relatively small bag of it and turns out the bag was 11 euros.

whoops...he ripped us off there.

we were just walking around parts of milan sort of wasting time because we had a few hours before we needed to head to the airport but then it started to rain. we figured since we weren't going anywhere and the part of town we were in didn't have much to see we'd just start on our way and look at things on the way. turned out to be a good idea, we found a little market outside of one of the train stations we had to stop at!

hah while we were waiting to get on the ryan air plane it was a bit chaotic. (well first of all the plane was delayed like 30 minutes so we were all waiting in this room completely crammed together because as previously mentioned ryanair has NO sense of organization). so next we are standing in some corridor waiting to actually LOAD the plane and suddenly an alarm goes off and they come and shut the doors. causing us to be locked in a small hallway wish no exit. cool? haha mostly funny. we didn't know what the alarms were for, but they stopped after about 5 minutes.

see ya italy...you were great.

really appreciated the beautiful sunset on the way out also.

that was a nice farewell treat.

really was a great short trip.
sort of sketchy hostels but really nice people. check.
beautiful city. check.
a bit of shopping...check.

it still seems sort of fake that i went to italy?
i think that was real life.