Day trip to Milan!

Towards the middle of our vacation, Mommy and Daddy went on a special day trip to Milan with Sophia. We left William with Nonno and Nonna and made a special day of the outing. Sophia loved riding the subway and chasing the pigeons in Piazza del Duomo was her favorite thing of the day!

Just out of the subway in Piazza San Babila. We walked around and looked in all kinds of nice shops. That's the Duomo in the distance.

Shortly after getting into Milan we stopped for lunch. We went to a favorite place of ours called Charleston. It's where we always go when in Milan for lunch. Delicious!

Sophia and Mommy had pizza. Good stuff!  Daddy had pasta and then seafood. Yum!

During the whole lunch Sophia kept asking to go to the race car store that was next door to the restaurant.

After the Ferrari store we kept walking until we reached the Duomo. So beautiful!

Sophia was more interested in chasing pigeons. She did this for a good 10 minutes. This poor guy just kept waddling away and she kept chasing this particular one down.

We bought some corn and had Sophia hold it out. She enjoyed this but was kind of scared of the pigeons as soon as they landed on her. She didn't understand to keep her hand flat for them to peck from.

 
Feeding the birds

Of course after the pigeons we had to go spin on the Bull's Balls! They say it brings good luck. This has been done by so many visitors that the mosaic has been redone repeatedly as a hole is worn straight into the concrete from all the people spinning.

No visit to Milan is complete wihtout a gelato from Grom. So good.

After the gelato we took the subway back to meet Nonno who picked us up in the car and we drove back up to Gignese. Within 3 minutes of being in the car Sophia passed out, she was so tired! She's not used to all the walking we did since in Atlanta everyone drives everywhere.