Semester in Europe!

Today was a good day simply because it was all fashion related... duh. Started out the day per usual with breakfast at the hotel, a 1.5 mile walk to school, class, coffee, class, etc. After class today though we found a little pasta place literally around the corner from school! It was called Gustapanino. We were actually looking for a pizza place with a similar name that apparently is just down the street, but we somehow (between broken Italian, Google Maps without data and wifi, and five girls walking in the wrong direction) ended up at the pasta place!! It turned into an amazing surprise though because our food was incredible. I got tagiatelli with a meat sauce and it was the greatest thing I have ever eaten. Alexa got some sort of round, fat pasta with cheese and red sauce. It was the freshest red sauce I have ever eaten! We literally cleaned our plates, down to rubbing the bread in the leftover sauce. We also got glasses of their house wine for literally two euros, the water was 2.50!!! Its crazy! After our delicious lunch, we walked back to school to meet up with a tour guide to go to the Feragami (I think that's how you spell it...) and Gucci Museums. Feragami was a shoe designer who first made the cork wedge in a heal. He was known to design shoes that were so comfortable because he believed that the arch of the foot should match up exactly to the arch in the shoe. He used a metal plate to ensure this. Additionally, he did all the shoes by hand and he made them for basically any famous person you can think of!! In the workshop portion of the museum there are foot models (like what you make the shoe around - the wooden shoe looking thing) for Michael Jordan, Marylin Monroe, and even Prince George!! The rest of the museum was pretty boring though, it was a special seasonal exhibition. The Gucci museum was absolutely incredible though... all the original purses, luggage, house items, bike, car, dresses, you name it, was all there. The car was so sick. It came with a set of luggage in it!!! And the bike is SOOO cute, if it was not $5,000 for todays model, then I would totally want it. They also make a lot of their purses out of crocodile skin, it was fascinating. My absolute favorite part was seeing the dress that Blake Lively wore on the red carpet in 2013 for a Gucci promotion. It was gorgeous and there were pictures of her in it. We weren't allowed to take pictures in the museum at all, alarms went off when cameras were detected, but I snuck one picture of the dress because my heart was actually racing simply being in its presence. Not to be dramatic or anything... to give you an idea of the worth of everything that was in the museum, the coffee mug in the gift shop was 40 Euros... like okay its a coffee mug bros. After the museum, we went and got gelato of course!! This might have been one of my favorite gelato places yet, it was in the piacce with a fake model of David. After that, we went in a couple shops just to look around, over in the commercialized, Gold Coast, type street in Florence. We then headed to the leather market again because it just smells so good I could stay there all day!! We made it back to the hotel in time to do a little bit of a workout before dinner because we did not walk 10 miles today (lol...). Dinner tonight was incredible! We had risotto first, then mash potatoes and meat balls, then a creme fruit cake!! It was sooooo good. After dinner we planned out trip to Belgium! I am so excited simply for the waffles and chocolate! But first I need to focus on getting to Venice tomorrow! Wahooooo!!!

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Italian Shopping :)))

February 04, 2016

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Florence, Italy

Today was a good day simply because it was all fashion related... duh. Started out the day per usual with breakfast at the hotel, a 1.5 mile walk to school, class, coffee, class, etc. After class today though we found a little pasta place literally around the corner from school! It was called Gustapanino. We were actually looking for a pizza place with a similar name that apparently is just down the street, but we somehow (between broken Italian, Google Maps without data and wifi, and five girls walking in the wrong direction) ended up at the pasta place!! It turned into an amazing surprise though because our food was incredible. I got tagiatelli with a meat sauce and it was the greatest thing I have ever eaten. Alexa got some sort of round, fat pasta with cheese and red sauce. It was the freshest red sauce I have ever eaten! We literally cleaned our plates, down to rubbing the bread in the leftover sauce. We also got glasses of their house wine for literally two euros, the water was 2.50!!! Its crazy! After our delicious lunch, we walked back to school to meet up with a tour guide to go to the Feragami (I think that's how you spell it...) and Gucci Museums. Feragami was a shoe designer who first made the cork wedge in a heal. He was known to design shoes that were so comfortable because he believed that the arch of the foot should match up exactly to the arch in the shoe. He used a metal plate to ensure this. Additionally, he did all the shoes by hand and he made them for basically any famous person you can think of!! In the workshop portion of the museum there are foot models (like what you make the shoe around - the wooden shoe looking thing) for Michael Jordan, Marylin Monroe, and even Prince George!! The rest of the museum was pretty boring though, it was a special seasonal exhibition. The Gucci museum was absolutely incredible though... all the original purses, luggage, house items, bike, car, dresses, you name it, was all there. The car was so sick. It came with a set of luggage in it!!! And the bike is SOOO cute, if it was not $5,000 for todays model, then I would totally want it. They also make a lot of their purses out of crocodile skin, it was fascinating. My absolute favorite part was seeing the dress that Blake Lively wore on the red carpet in 2013 for a Gucci promotion. It was gorgeous and there were pictures of her in it. We weren't allowed to take pictures in the museum at all, alarms went off when cameras were detected, but I snuck one picture of the dress because my heart was actually racing simply being in its presence. Not to be dramatic or anything... to give you an idea of the worth of everything that was in the museum, the coffee mug in the gift shop was 40 Euros... like okay its a coffee mug bros. After the museum, we went and got gelato of course!! This might have been one of my favorite gelato places yet, it was in the piacce with a fake model of David. After that, we went in a couple shops just to look around, over in the commercialized, Gold Coast, type street in Florence. We then headed to the leather market again because it just smells so good I could stay there all day!! We made it back to the hotel in time to do a little bit of a workout before dinner because we did not walk 10 miles today (lol...). Dinner tonight was incredible! We had risotto first, then mash potatoes and meat balls, then a creme fruit cake!! It was sooooo good. After dinner we planned out trip to Belgium! I am so excited simply for the waffles and chocolate! But first I need to focus on getting to Venice tomorrow! Wahooooo!!!

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