Saturday morning we said good bye for now to the Alps as we will surely be back. The whole group agreed that Monterosa and Aosta Valley are truly beautiful and a great place to visit, we all want to go back again. In the morning when we woke up there was about 6 inches of fresh light powder on the cars which made it even harder for us to close the skiing chapter of our trip. Originally when we booked the trip we thought 3 weeks of skiing may be too much but after 15 days on the mountain we still weren’t over it, especially with 6 inches of beautiful powder. But Milan was calling so off we went.
The drive down from the Alps was very beautiful until we got into the periphery of Milan which is quite industrial. As expected, Milan was quite hectic getting in to town. As we may or may not have mentioned, Alitalia had lost Nate’s bag. After a week of promising to deliver it in Champoluc, he had to drive back to the airport to retrieve it. The initial plan was to have Nate, Christine, Jeff, and Karen head to the airport to grab Nate’s bag and to drop off their car, while Sara and Dave headed to the apartment to check in and drop off everybody’s bag.
When Sara and Dave got to the apartment, we got all checked in and started bringing the bags in. We thought the elevator would work but unfortunately with the bags in the elevator, it would not go to the second floor. Therefore, Dave carried everybody’s bags up to the second floor. It was exhausting. After unloading the bags, we were going to wait for Nate, Christine, Jeff, and Karen to get back; however, there was no place to park the car without a permit. Instead, Sara and Dave headed to drop-off the car at the Train Station. This drive took us all the way across the city. The map said 15 minutes but it took closer to 45 minutes. After dropping off the car, we decided to instead take the Subway back.
Once we got back to the apartment we ate a quick Pizza and headed off to the Duomo.
While visiting the Duomo, we saw a far right fascist speaker’s stage getting taken down from an earlier rally in the square. While we were there, we also thought we saw Batman:
After checking out the outside, we headed to the Inter Store to get our tickets for the evening. With tickets for the game in hand, we had some serious business to take care of including Spritz.
Arriving at the stadium, we were in awe of how large it is. It holds 86,000 people. Even though the game was not that croweded, there were still of a ton of people there.
Inter Milan won out over Benevento 2-0. The game was exciting and the goals happened right in front of our seats which were great. After we got back to our neighborhood it was close to midnight. We headed to a bar in search of refreshments and snacks. After a few glasses of wine, we called it a night.
Today we plan to enjoy some siteseeing around town.