Day 8: Milan

Well we got the breakfast for the first time at this hotel, and it wasn’t as impressive unfortunately, but they had great fruit, so that’s what I ate.  We left the hotel, and headed to Mila Schon, a fashion company, and listened to them present.  This is the company Linden and I did a report on, so we knew some about it beforehand. 

We then went to lunch at Da Cecco, an Italian restaurant.   Our first course was a tray of assorted meats, salami, prosciutto, others,  I tried them all, but didn’t eat any more.  They had an amazing bread there, it was like freshly baked sourdough. Delicious.  For our main course, we had some kind of roast beef or something in a brownish sauce, with a side of grilled veggies and some fried potatoes.  It was pretty good.  Then for dessert we got tiramisu, which was also good.

After lunch, we went to another meeting, and  on the way our tour guide showed us this unbelievable cathedral, it’s the 3rd largest in the world.  It was soooo huge. Anyways, we went to our meeting about the World Expo that will be held in Milan in 2015.  It was pretty interesting what they plan to do, and hard to imagine.  We finished up there with our last company visit, and headed back to the hotel.

Jessica and I sporting the Expo hats:

We planned to go out to dinner for Preston’s  30th birthday at an Italian restaurant Pane e Tulipani (Google maps link), and all 20 of us got reservations at about 7:30.  We were greeted with a glass of free Champagne, 3 different kinds of breads + olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Linden, Jessica, and I split a pizza with mushrooms, artichokes, black olives, and ham (the whole thing was only 8 euro).  It was very good, and we didn’t even finish it.  They also had really good parmesan cheese :) We then went back to the hotel and celebrated Preston’s birthday playing cards and hanging out in the hotel. Only one more day!

Linden and I at dinner: