Day 5: Milan

Ellie and I had an awesome day! we went to see The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci. only 20 or so people can see it at a time, for only 15 min and its so much more amazing than i imagined. It is a whole wall and in the pictures you see it looked like its cracking or something, In reproductions I never been like "oh that is a cool picture" I've always thought, it was OK, neat maybe, but when you see the real thing the cracks and the stucco or stuff its made of is more like texture rather than cracks. needless to say it was cool. Ellie of course decided to start crying when we got in there. The lady explaining the painting had to compete with her. by the way there are NO babies in Italy. almost creepy like. Everyone LOVED her, police would stop and coo and make funny faces, men, tour guides, museum workers, it was crazy. the kid got more attention in this one week than she probably will the rest of her life! (and more bottles, we had to keep feeding her bottles to keep her quiet in all the museums we went to) after The museum we went back to the hotel and took a much needed nap! the go go go of the trip was hard on all of us. when Shaun got back from work we headed to tour around Milan with Francis and to eat the best pizza and cal zone of my life.

This is the Castle Sforzesco

Amanda and I toured this on day 3. it was neat then when we got to see the moat and inside, and night time was cool too. they lit the whole castle up with Christmas lights and it would light up to music. this was at a loud part when the whole thing sparkled. I'd totally live in a castle.

Shauns turn to get good luck

Ellie had to spin on the bulls balls too

Me and Shaun at the Duomo at night

Day 3: Milan Duomo

spinning on the bulls balls
Amanda on the Duomo
Me and Ellie.

Today Amanda and I headed out in the rain and cold to go see the Duomo of Milan and the Bull who grants you good luck if you spin on his balls 3x. there are no longer any balls, but instead deep holes from where people spun and wore it away. it was pretty cold! we went into the Duomo and then went on top for the view, unfortunately it was overcast, but the building itself and architecture was amazing. The work that went into that building is incredible. they say they have been working on it since 1400's and its still not complete. the interior was very catholic. there were a lot of stain glass and pictures of Jesus and his disciples, it was beautiful, but the whole time period of the art inst my style, it isn't very real looking to me. but i guess during this time they "had lost the art of the human body" which is interesting because I never really new what that meant, but i am thinking it meant they drew and made their art very 2 dimensional. I don't know, my theory. i loved the windows and the the architecture. like i said before amazing! it made me wonder how many people died making the spires and the statues that are EVERYwhere in and on top of the building!