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Italia! Pasta, Pizza, Gelato, Duomo!

After the business trip to Mexico City, I had a day off and then took a flight out Saturday at dawn to Milan for another work trip. Our flight stopped in Minneapolis first, then off to Amsterdam, and then finally into Malpensa airport in Italy.

I found it pretty coincidental that during this trip, I made stops in the two other states that I have lived in (Georgia & Minnesota).

Twins gear at the airport (TC --> CT!)

I love the feel of Milan’s streets

On the way to dinner by the canal

Of course, in Milan, there is fashion. Thus, there must be fashion shoots.

How can you not love the architecture in this city? We ate at the restaurant with the blue tables shown in the picture below. Apparently Italians eat pretty late, so we were definitely the first people for their dinner service.

Seafood pasta was by far one of my favorite foods in Italy. Of course, you can’t get tired of it since there are so many variations. I didn’t realize how much seafood was in this until my coworker and I ate all the shellfish and their shells filled up a bowl the exact same size as the one in the picture. That doesn’t even include all the shrimp!

The Italians that we were working with were right. Italian food can best be described as fresh.

How about some lobster penne? There’s something about the way that they cook the pasta (al dente) and the fragrance in the simple sauce that is so delicious.

With some wine perhaps? You know that bottle of expensive wine imported from Italy? Yes, much cheaper in Italy where it doesn’t need to be imported.

Of course there were many sights to see as well. I don’t remember what this church was called, but it sure was gorgeous.

They take their football very seriously in Italy. Our cabbie was watching the Italy vs. Paraguay match in the car. I must say, the quality of the feed could have matched the tv in my hotel room.

We were lucky that our hotel was so close to the enormous Central Station in Milan (called Milano in Italy–yes like the cookies). Inside, it felt like a transportation hub and shopping mall, rolled into one. This picture is taken from the side, where all the taxi’s line up. There were many Prius taxis, and I really wanted to try to sit in one of the new Priuses  (or as my coworkers dubbed Prii –pree-eye) or a Honda hybrid but only got to sit in an older one.

And of course there was some shopping involved– I honestly think that I’ve been to an H&M in every country that we have visited.

Thought this street looked pretty cool. Then I realized, all the streets kind of look like this.

Now brace yourself for the beauty called The Duomo.

Spectacular!

From the front.

Of course, you can’t be in Italy and not have GELATO! I wish I had taken a picture of the fancy gelato that we had gotten a few days before because it looked so nice! Here is some regular gelato haha.