Milano

Hey guys,

We had a great trip to Milano last weekend and got home late last night.  Jay and I were there for about 3 days and saw just about all there was to see...well at least by foot from our hotel.  We walked everywhere and not once took a taxi-cab, even though it was pouring rain and Jay was too tight to spring for a cab!  haha!  It was fine, Jay says that it helps build my character.  It really was a sight to see the Duomo Church in the Centre of Milan.  I have added some photos to this posting of Jay and I by the Duomo as well as inside there.  

The first day we walked from our hotel to the centre of Milan, took about 10 min, and went to the Duomo first.  We walked around the centre of the city and did some shopping in the area.  What an amazing place to do your shopping, beautiful people all around, beautiful clothes, expensive things, and best of all in my mind GELATO.  For good luck Jay and I rubbed the heals of our shoes on the "genitals of the Taurus Bull".  This is something that some of the people of Milan do everyday, you spin around 3 times for good luck, we thought maybe it would give us the best luck if we ate gelato at the same time!  We did some touring until about 6 pm and then decided that we were getting tired and hungry, so we walked and walked and walked to find something that was open to eat at.  Finally in an alley we found an Italian  restaurant that was open but no guests yet, we forgot that people do not eat until about 9 pm here.  By this time my puppies were screaming and I needed some food.  (Keep in mind that over here last weekend was a Holiday weekend, All Saints Day and All Souls Day...as well and Mondays people take off)  So it was busy around the city but not everything was opened for business.  Jay and I had dinner here and enjoyed some great wine, wonderful bread, pastas, and MANY laughs at our own expense.  I think that the help was happy to see our butts walk out the door.  (We were asleep by 9:30 pm....note we had been up since 4 am and the night before went to bed at 12 am)

Day two...we got an earlier start on the day from all the rest the night before and were to the Duomo by about 10:30 am when things just start getting going in Milan.  We had said the night before how much we really wanted to go up the stairs in the church and so we did.  Up to the VERY top of the Duomo and we got to walk on the very top roof!  It was amazing but kind of a scary walk up.  (My mom would not have liked that walk up AT ALL).  We took some great pictures while we were up there, and will post some on here.  We then walked up the Via Dante and saw more beautiful shops and had some great pizza for lunch and a caprese salad, a favorite of a Miss Lisa K.  Walking further up we got to see the Castle at the middle of the city, it was amazing to see and also know how many countries have ruled in the city.  Jay is a great photographer and took some wonderful photos while we were here, and we also used our tri-pod that Jays dad gave us, it worked great!  Then we walked to the Church of Santa Maria del Gratzie, this is where the famous painting "The Last Supper" by Leonardo DaVinci.  We were unable to see the painting because reservations were booked out to see it for the next TWO WEEKS! WOW!!!  We did see the church itself though.  After this we decided to walk back to the Centre, where we then "got suckered" or thought it may be fun for the guy on the street to draw a picture of us....lets just say we look more our shoe size then our real age!  Its a great picture of us and this guy was a really great sketch artist.  Dinner at a Chinese Restaurant and again maybe too much wine, but lots of fun!

Day three....up again to make a plan for the day.  Jay had his 6 croissants at breakfast from the hotel and we were off in the rain to see a few things we had not seen.  Jay bought an umbrella from the "guy on the corner" and thankfully it made it the rest of the day.  The Saint Ambriaggo Church is the one we saw right away in the morning and it was Jay's favorite.  We lit a candle in this church it was quite beautiful and also had a gorgeous courtyard, where we got one of the best pictures of the trip.  After this we walked some bit further to another church and courtyard.  This day amounted in wet shoes, tired feet, soaking suitcases, and thinking we took the wrong tour bus to the airport.  Even though the whole day was spent in the rain we still had a great time together.  

Love

Kels & J