Day 1: Milan

Well, we finally made it to Italy and it was definately worth the wait. After flying into New York, we thought we could train into Times Square and grab dinner, but later we found out it was $14/person one way to Penn Station, so all we got was a lousy photo of the NY skyline from the airport. We then left America at 11pm on Alitalia. After popping our sleeping pills we woke up to a nice Italian breakfast and a magnificent view of the Swiss Alps from the airplane. Finally, we landed in Milan.
Once in Milan we were just a short walk away from our hotel which was situated a mere 100 meters from Milan's Stazione Centrale. Our place was very nice with a magnificent window that opened onto Via Tomale, a major Milanese street. By now it was 2pm and we wanted to start experiencing Italy, so we bought a Metro pass and visited Milan's Duomo (see photo), the 3rd largest church in the World. The architecture was stunning and it only got better when we went inside. In fact we ran into Marg Helgenberger--better known as the Strawberry Blonde from CSI--walking around the Duomo with her extremely Italian-looking boyfriend.
After seeing the Duomo, we found a little hole-in-the-wall pizzeria off the main drag. Our cook and waiter spoke no English so to kill the awkwardness he projected a 5x10 foot image on the wall of the World Cup game that I tickets to (and unfortunately decided to sell them): Saudia Arabia v. Tunisia. Oh yeah, and the pizza margherita was amazing. We then checked in for the night so that we could sleep off our jet lag and get an early start for the next day.