Fare la Speza

"Fare la speza" means "shopping" in Italian!

 

We did our Thanksgiving weekend shopping in Milan!

 

First we tried to go see the famous painting by Leonardo Da Vinci, "The Last Supper" but we found out you have to reserve tickets two weeks in advance.  (Next time you visit Milan, keep this in mind...)

 

We saw the church where the painting is housed, anyway...

 

This is the Galleria, which is a famous shopping area of Milan.

 

And this is the Duomo, the big church in Milan.

 

There were lots of places to shop.

 

Well....window shop...

 

This is a picture of Kieran doing his own advertisements...

 

We took the Metro around Milan.

 

On the last day of our trip we drove back home, which really I don't count as a day of vacation.

We stopped to look at Lake Como for about 3 minutes.  (We will have to come back another time.)

 

Half of Lake Como is in Italy and the other half is in Switzerland, because it's on the border.

 

We drove home through Switzerland. (Country # 6)

 

Here is a REAL Alpine slide.  (In the Alps...get it?)