Bachelorette Party in Milan

A friend of mine on my team at work is getting married at the end of August and us girls on the team thought it would be fun to do a bachelorette party for her.  So we headed to Milan for the night last weekend.  There were five of us girls in total traveling together (meeting up with one other girl in Milan) and our plan was to head out on the train early Saturday morning, shop during the day, have a nice dinner and go out that night.  Then we would relax a bit on Sunday and head home in the afternoon.  However, a landslide that happened about a week before we left, which damaged the train track between Zurich and Milan, altered our journey just a bit.  What was supposed to be a 3 hour and 45 minute train ride turned into a 5 hour train ride.  The real kicker in that whole thing wasn’t really the added time but the fact that we had to take 2 trains, a bus and then 3 trains to get to Milan on what was supposed to be a direct train to Milan (why they couldn’t make it just one train, a bus and then one more train was beyond us).  In any case, we arrived a little later than expected, checked in to the hotel, grabbed some lunch and before we knew it, it was 3:00.  So we were off to do some shopping for just a couple of hours (I wasn’t quite as successful as I was in Florence).  We got all dolled up and had a great dinner that night, went out for drinks after and made it to bed around 4am.  Needless to say, we were not up early the next day.  When we finally did get up, we had another great Italian meal and were off to the train station. I feel like I blinked and the weekend was already over. But eventhough it was overall a whirlwind trip to Milan, it was well worth it as it was lots of fun just hanging out with the girls.
 
I could definitely go back to Milan just to have a chance to explore a few of the neighborhoods a bit more as well as the Duomo (it was so massive and impressive from the outside).  Eventhough I only got a small glimpse of the shopping, I think it was better in Florence.  If nothing else Florence seemed to be a bit more charming.  In any case though, perhaps I can make it back there someday with Nate and together we can see more of Milan with a bit more time.