Milan, Italy - July 17th

The group of us were quite hungover this morning and did not get out of bed until around noon. Once we were up, we decided to go get Sunday brunch at a restaurant called "California Bakery", which was said to serve American breakfast food we were craving so much.

We took the metro all the way across town to the canal district and then rode on a "tranny" to the section the restaurant was in. Using Kara's iPad to navigate, we walked several blocks up the road looking for the bakery. We passed by some old cathedrals and Roman-looking ruins. Soon we realized that we had gone way too far. Nearly collapsing from exhaustion and lack of food, a few members of the group stopped to get weiners at a German restaurant. The few of us willing to press on soon came across the bakery after backtracking down the street.

The food was definitely worth our troubles. I had a chicken sandwich which you'll rarely find over here. It was delicious and the service was incredible. We relaxed in the bakery for a few hours enjoying our food before returning to the dorm.

I took my soccer ball out to the park by our dorm and played with a few Italians there. When they left, I began kicking it against a wall but a shard broke off and popped a hole. With my flat ball, I walked back to the dorm and watched the Women's World Cup which was unbelievably exciting but disappointing when the US girls lost in a shootout against Japan.