The Mall and Town Center

Yesterday at dinner Tiffany was too full to eat her tiramisu but was upset because she really likes that dessert, so when we woke up this morning Valentino said he had a surprise for her. His mom made Tiffany homemade tiramisu in a huge container. We had that for breakfast. The orange juice we have for breakfast is really good too, but we only saw a container with a pear on it, so we asked what kind of juice we were drinking. Valentino said that we were drinking orange juice that his mom squeezed herself. I was really surprised, and it’s really good orange juice. Today, Valentino told us we were going to an authentic Italian market. We wore warm clothes because we thought it would be outside. When we arrived, we saw that it was a shopping mall. He must not have known the right word for it, so I told him that it’s called a mall. They have a grocery store in the mall, and it’s huge and 2 floors. Because of this, you can take a shopping cart through the whole mall if you want to. And since people push around shopping carts, their escalators are like moving sidewalks that are ramps to go to the second floor. I’ve never seen anything like it. Tiffany and I found this store that had really good sales. We bought jeans for about 10 euro and shirts for about 6 euro. Valentino also took us to what he called “Italy’s first technology store.” The store was like a best buy because it had any electronic you needed. I guess they are just starting to get stores like that. He also showed us a store like Dick’s, but called Decathlon, that had all kinds of sports material. After the mall, we went to lunch at his Aunt and Uncle’s café. It was really cute and all the furniture and napkin holders were covered in snake skin, and Valentino said that his family did that themselves. I had lasagna and Tiffany had a sandwich. Both were really good. Afterwards, we had chocolate croissants. Next, we went to the town center that we went to last night to do some more shopping. Valentino took us to the Euro store, which is kind of like a dollar store. There were some fun things in there. We met some of Valentino’s friends at a café there. We got hot chocolate, but it came with a spoon. I asked how to eat it, and Valentino said to scoop it with my spoon. I told him that in America, we just drink it. When we scooped it, it was more like hot pudding than hot chocolate. It was really good though. One of his friends drove us back to his house and later we are going to his friend’s restaurant for more Italian food.