Last full day in Milan

Today was busy. I thought I would be just wondering around Milan but I actually accomplished things. I had to purchase a train ticket to get from the Metro to the airport so I figured out how to do that. My hotel is about half a mile from the Metro and then I have about 4 stops before I get to the train station-Metro station. I am expecting to leave my hotel about 5:30 am Sunday morning to make my connections. My only concern is that when I checked my flight on Continental to Amsterdam it wasnt listed. I am hoping that is because the flight is not on their airline. I guess I will find out tomorrow.
Then I finally went in to the Prada store (first store they ever had) and saw some nice boots I liked - for 280 euros! I touched them and walked away. I went downstairs in their store where they have kind of a museum of some of their original bags, etc. in cases - a Prada museum - who would have thunk it?
I did a bit more shopping and bought a shirt at the HM store (I always see it advertised in US magazine). It is very reasonable. I think I paid 9 euros.
Then I decided to find then Monumental Cemetery since it had a great write up in my tour book. It is described as" Europes most artistic and dreamy cemetery experience". And it was! I have never seen anything like it - large monuments, statues, a church shaped like a cross with statues everywhere. It is a good reason for visiting Milan. I think it was one of the most emotional sites I have ever seen. I hope some of my pictures show its glory (not "gory")
I then found a grocery store - it is a very good day when one finds a grocery store in Italy! I bought some hard rolls, cheese, wine, and orange, some chocolate and a fruit smoothie (yep, I was hungry) and went back to my room to eat, watch TV and read a bit later.
I was out of reading material and found a couple shelves in a bookstore so I bought a book. It is amazing how important reading is when you do not have anything to read. I was getting a bit tired of Rick Steves "Italy" tourguide.
As a bit of a recap, I was thinking that it would be impossible to be on a high protein, low carb diet here. My diet consisted of the 3 Ps and Cs - pasta, pasterie and pizza and capaccino, chocolate and cookies. When I did try to get some meat on my pasta (veal) I got some ground up veal that was not very satisfying. I did have some good pizza yesterday - with olives. They serve the olives with the pits and I was not sure how to eat them. I watched a man at another table and the olive pits just seemed to appear magically on his plate. I also noticed that they eat their pizza with a knife and fork and then sometimes pick it up and fold it over and eat it by hand. I followed their lead and ended up with a blob of tomato on my shirt. No one seemed to notice but I dont know how since were were all sitting shoulder to shoulder at the tables.
I have to admit I did spent a lot of time at McDonalds. They have a Mc Cafe here with just pasteries and different coffees for breakfast so I started going there since you could sit down. I just did not get in to the stand at the counter drinking your expresso and capaccino although I did it twice. I need to ease into the morning off of my feet!
Steps the last couple days have been around 22.000. I am looking forward to resting my feet for a bit when I get home.
By the way, my travel buddy S met his ex girfriend but there were no sparks. I think they both needed to find that out.
I hope you have enjoyed following my adventures. I know I have missed covering some of my experiences so be prepared when I start a conversation with "Well when I was in Italy"
Hope to be home tomorrow and have pics up in the next few days.