Europe Trip Day Two: Traveling to Milan, Italy!

My cousins wake up at around 5:30am every morning in Switzerland (I know crazy), they are not normal. But since I am not normal either I woke up around 6am. Jet lag is also a factor in me getting up so early since my brain is not used to the time change yet, which can be really annoying. I was wide awake and ready to start the day... well sort of. I was still quite groggy from the previous day but I wasn't going to let that stop me. After breakfast my cousins and I continued with the previous day activity: playing with the snakes. I don't know what it is but I just found these snakes really interesting and fun. So at 9am in the morning my cousins and I were playing with some snakes.

Us with both of the snakes in hand

Mom said make a funny face so I did....

Hands of snakes!

Me holding two snakes with my cousin

Well hello there snakey! :)

At about 10:30am we had to depart for the train station since my mom and I were going to Italy with my grandpa for a couple of days. My cousins were sad that I was spending most of my time in Europe away from them but I promised that we would have the best day together when I get back from Italy.

At the train station!

When we said goodbye to the cousins and my aunt, my grandpa, mom and I hopped onto a train for about 45 minutes and then another one that was about two or three hours long. While on the train we had yummy yogurt drinks, cheese, dried meat, crackers and cheese spread (my mom and I call it grandpa catering since we always get some type of food from grandpa while on the trains, and usually the food is really good!)

Us on the train with yummy food! :)

I have been to Milan, Italy once before and I thought it was really pretty and interesting. Milan is the shopping center of Italy with tons of clothes shops on every corner. Also it is home to a huge Catholic Cathedral in the middle of Milan. It is a gothic style cathedral and huge! It took them about 500 years to complete the building of this monster. Last time I was there we went to the very top of the cathedral and we could see everything in Milan and it was amazing.

The Cathedral and its plaza!

Big archway leading into an outdoor mall

This day we just wondered around Milan and went into this huge shopping center called Rinascente. It was so expensive and had all the pricey brands like Gucci, Armani, Dolce & Gabbana, etc. One shirt was over 200 Euros! We didn't buy anything in this shopping center but it was really cool to look at. At the top was a little cafe overlooking the Cathedral plaza, and we bought some food.

Delicious smoothies

Gelato!!! :) so good..

Macaroons!! They are the best things EVER!

After all this deliciousness we left the plaza and walked around this old marketplace that was really cool. I also found a really cool well that had Latin on the top of it but I had forgotten what some verbs were in Latin so I had a hard time translating it. This is also the place that we found a cute restaurant for dinner. We stayed at the place for more then two hours just eating and talking about all the things we saw that day. And in Italy the drinking age is 16 so I had a couple sips of wine with my dinner. The dinner was delicious and I love Italian food! It is so good.

Empty marketplace!

Me vs. Well

Outdoor dinning!

The square right behind the marketplace!

Salad with shrimp, oranges, avocado, and balsamic!

Tomatos with Mozzarella!

My dinner! Spaghetti Carbonara!

After dinner it was around 10pm so we walked around a little talking about what time we would get up to explore more of Milan. We eventually decided that 8am would be the right time to get breakfast. Then we walked to our hotel and went to sleep after the long day! :) Hopefully Day Three will be up soon!

Have a FANTASTIC day!