Today was our regular P-day, we got our work done, even though we took off on Wed, so we went to Milano today to see what we want to see in preparation for Amy's family visit at the end of June. Here are some of the things we saw today, some of which we have already seen:
You come up out of the metro station onto the large piazza of the duomo, or cathedral. Duomo comes from Latin and refers to house of God, and is what Italians call cathedrals, which means that is where the bishop's cathedra, or throne, is located. Any large church is not necessarily a cathedral. We wanted to go to the roof, which costs 15 euros each (about 18 or so dollars), so we stood in line to buy tickets. It also costs 1 euro to go to the bathroom at the duomo, those Catholics know how to make money.
Then we took the elevator to the roof, for 3 euros, to see the statues on top and the city of Milano. It was quite a sight for sore feet.
What is amazing is that there are statues you could never see from the ground, you have to walk around the roof and look down, or up,or sideways, to see them.
The piazza in front of the duomo, in the front is the statue of the Italian equivalent of George Washington, who lived in the 1800s.
This was a church with a separate chapel full of skulls and bones, from the days of the black plague, of people who wanted to be buried within the church, and they certainly were.
They even used the bones to make designs.
And some are just there, behind wire, I suppose to keep them safe, so tourists wouldn't take them home for souvenoirs.
Myrna sitting at the fountain in front of the castle.
It was a large city inside the walls. On the left are bleachers, where they now have concerts, etc.
We came home and rested for about an hour, then went grocery shopping for the week, Myrna cooked up some pasta for dinner and we ate it with some Ragù alla Bolognese I made last week (we freeze it). Now she is up making pound cakes for the new missionary orientation, for about 30, we are catering on Tuesday. We will serve it with fresh strawberries and whipped cream. The main course will be chicken salad on croissants, which we have already ordered from the neighborhood bakery. (Myrna is making the salad, we are looking for chicken breasts on sale, which we hope to find on Monday afternoon, so we don't have to freeze them.). All of these new missionaries are sisters. Had there been some elders, Myrna was gong to make Cafè Rio pulled pork and she is going to try making flour tortillas, which you can actually buy (in the international section of the grocery store), but they are expensive and not very fresh. I also watered our "garden" out on the balcony from our bedroom today, it is doing well. The weather is certainly changeable. All week it rained and was a little chilly, but today it got up probably in the 80s and was sunny. We will sleep with the windows open tonight, and when it gets really hot we have air conditioning, which most Italians don't.
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