Missing you in Milano

We had such a good sleep after our very long day with the plane ride. In the morning we had a nice breakfast of fruit and cookies, and then it was time to head into Milano.


We went shopping in many bookstores and found some fun souvenirs. Then we had some yummy pizza for lunch.


After lunch we toured the Duomo in Milan. The building is entirely covered in marble and has many statues and carvings on it. This cathedral was built centuries ago, but it took hundreds of years to complete, and they even add new parts these days. We met some new friends and they decided to join us on the rest of our trip.


We took the Metro (Subway) to another part of Milan where we saw a really old castle. We couldn't stay long on this day because the castle closed down at five o'clock, all we got to do was pretend to be a statue in the Ducal Courtyard.


We then had supper and went back to the hotel. It rained really hard while we were on the tram, but most of the rain had stopped before we had to get off, so we didn't get too wet.

The next day we went back into Milano to tour the Sforza castle. This castle was first built in the 1300's. but in 1450 Francesco Sforza began reconstruction of the castle for his family. They were a very important family in the area. After our castle tour, we went back to the hotel and drove to our new location. We are staying on a farm in Emilia-Romagna. There are many castles in the area, we will probably go touring them tomorrow.