Turning 25 can be considered one of those milestone birthdays. As a friend of mine put it best "congrats you are now a quarter of a century old". When I turned 20 I definitely in a million years did not think I would be spending my 25th Birthday outside of the States, let alone in Italy. Yet 5 years later here I am. With a month of exams ending the day before I had two reasons to celebrate. Oh ya and did I mention my birthday landed on a friday. That means birthday weekend :D.
We had all these wonderful plans for my actual birthday: going shopping, out to lunch, baking cookies and cakes then a wonderful dinner and drinks. What actually happened was I made the cupcakes the night before (red velvet which turnout to be pink velvet), I slept until 10 ate cupcakes basically all day while I watched TV in bed with the biggest cup of coffee in hand. It was raining hard most of the day so it was a fitting way to spend it. Then the troops were rallied and we did go out for that wonderful dinner and drinks :). We checked out this cute restaurant in Brera (the art district) called fiori chiari plates. It was a fun rustic sea side feel. We had a delicious antipasti plater for starters and then pasta all around.
We then headed over to a wine bar just around the corner N'ombra de vin (Their website seems to be under construction) where we drank prosecco the rest of the evening. This place was a fun change of pace from our normal location expect for their odd variety of music from Abba to the Rolling Stones. My friends were fantastic they gave me a bottle of wine and a gift card to one of my favorite, not so secrete anymore, places in all of Milan Signor Vino. I can't wait to use it maybe after my next exam??? We finished up at Shockolat one of the best Gelato shops in all of Milan. At the risk of sounding lame I am happy to say we were home by 1. I know I know but an easy relaxing evening is just what I wanted.
Day 2 of birthday weekend started out about the same as day 1 minus the cupcakes, well at least the excess of amounts of cupcakes. Alyssa gave me a salami in the shape of a pig yes a salami pig. It was soooooooo good. It was truffle favored so it had a hint of truffle in it. It went really well with Philadelphia cream cheese and Bea's bread from home. Then it was off to the local pub Matricola for some drinks with more friends. This night we did a Bellini toast with some great new and old friends. Once again we were home by I think 1:30 but it was so nice to get extra well needed rest.
Finally on day 3 the sun decided to make an appearance on birthday weekend. I woke up around 9 and went to church at Chiesa del Carmine. I don't go every week but every now and again it's nice to go to help put life in perspective. Then I met Daria, Moad and Bea to go ice skating out side in MILAN :D. Followed by gelato from Grom. We also stumbled upon a massive foosball table in the middle of the piazza, so naturally we planed for a while. We ended up tying 1 win for each team. After we were done there Bea and I went to do a little shopping I mean who doesn't need new nail polish when its only 1 euro. Then as our legs started to feel the burn from skating so, we decided it was time to go home. I made another batch of cupcakes to bring to University the next day, FaceTime with some friends and family, did my nails and that was the end of birthday weekend.
Monday starts block scheduling. Our first block is Cardiovascular disease. I can't wait. Stay tune for an update soon on the first block and Milan Cardiology 2014 a congress I will be attending over Valentine's day weekend.
Till We Meet Again,
~M~
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