First week in Italy

We arrived in Milano June 10.  At the mission office they tried to keep us awake so that we would sleep on our new time (8 hours ahead of MST back home)  A very nice meal was prepared in the evening by Sister Lee from the mission home.  The Lees were filling in for the Mission Pres. while he was in the states for heart surgery.  The next day Anziano Harmer dropped us at the Metro and said "Go get acquainted with downtown Milano." Here is a bit of what we saw. The Milan Duomo was the first sight as we emerged from the Metro.  Words can't describe it's beauty.

The digital display on the left is attached to a scaffolding that is being used to renovate the outside of the building.  The advertising is used to pay for the work. We did some walking around to other sights before returning to the Metro for the trip back to the mission office.

  Let me just tell you that there are no public restrooms in Italy that I've seen.  I needed one in a bad way so my dear husband found one in McDonalds. It was a life saver.  No picture here.The Galleria was amazing. Here are a few other sights that were of interest to us.

It's all about motorcycles in Italy.  They seem to have no rules that they follow. I love the little car above.  I can't decide which I want to take home, that little one or the little cute pickups that run on 3 wheels.  I'll get a picture of that someday.
On Thursday June 12 we loaded up our suitcases, jumped into our assigned Opal and followed the Harmers to Ancona.  The Harmers are the office couple.  We stopped in Reggio Emilia to drop dishes to some sisters there. Next stop was Forli.  That's the place we were originally going to be assigned.  We took some things from that apartment and followed on to Ancona. Spent the night in a motel, shopped the next day with the Harmers for our apartment, moved the elders out and moved ourselves in the next day.

  This is the sum total of our kitchen and the view off our balcony,  We are on the second floor but in Italy they start counting on the second floor, so technically we live on the first floor.