Coming Over to Milan

A few things that will be covered in this post: the Flight over to Milan, the Apartment, and the Jet Lag.

One of the many, many benefits of traveling during the low season, besides cheap plane tickets ($590 round trip), is the amount of space on the plane! I got to lie over three seats on the way over, and it was very comfortable. The entertainment offered was also pretty good. I ended up listening to Muse's new album (amazing!) and watching:

• A Simpsons episode
• A House episode
• 500 Days of Summer (a great movie)
• Part of GI Joe (the Cobra one that just came out) that left much to be desired, so I watched about 10 minutes of it and stopped the movie
• Part of Time Traveler's Wife, the book was so much better and the movie was so sloppily chopped together that if you didn't read the book you would have been lost, so I stopped watching after about 15 minutes
  
• Erin Brockovich- yes it came out 10 years ago (has it already been that long?), but it was a good movie

The other main highlight of the flight was definitely the view of the Swiss Alps! It was breathtaking. Obviously, these images don't do it justice,but I still think they're a pretty good representation.

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A few other flying facts:

• There is free wine on international flights from the US to the UK. I had my first legal drink on the flight over, and it was pretty exciting for me.
• New carry-on rules are irritating, or it could have just been the guy who was checking us in- he was kind of a jerk and kind of helpful, which was quite a strange mix

The Apartment is amazing and is a much better deal than the apartment I had to stay at this past summer in Chicago. We rent from a gentleman named Roberto, and he has been very helpful and kind. These images are actually the ones of our room pre-move-in, but just imagine it looking lived in (yet neat... which it will be after tomorrow-- currently it looks like 4 large suitcases exploded)

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Last, but certainly not least, the Jet Lag. It is currently 5:30AM over here in Milan, and I have spent the past 2 hours updating this blog and updating photo albums on Facebook. However, I do know some steps that can be taken to fight the Jet Lag (if only I listened to my own advice):

• As soon as you get on the plane, go immediately to the sleeping time zone of the place you're going to be at regardless of where you are
• Sleep
• If you can't sleep at the designated time zone- take some sleeping pills
• You will be almost as right as rain when you arrive and not be awake writing blogs and uploading images

Next post: driving in Milan, itinerary, and a few other topics