Livigno the next day

This morning we get up early as we want to wonder around.
I want to show Sampei the Dairy and Momo wants to show her daddy the place, while granny wants to buy some special cheese and daddy wants to have special breakfast ;)
So, after a hot shower, (here degrees are low outside compared to Milano), and a quick pre-breakfast with chocko rice flakes and yogurt, we get out and take the car to drive for the 2 km to reach the center.
As we arrive to the dairy, (fortunately there is a way to get there with the car, because last summer we arrived by feet just taking a walk but today weatherr is not so nice ... and there is always fear rain to come so is best to take car to move everywhere) daddy soon discovers he likes that place, you can eat for midday or have breakfast, you can reserve and see how they produce cheese and butter from a big window or directly inside, you can buy their products and in summer you can stay outside take sun and eat ice cream they produce fresh every day ;)
We buy some fresh yogurts and some cheese and we all take a coffee, it is the only thing I have not taken from home and we do not have at the apartment ;)
After the dairy we have to decide what to do, we are in the center again and .... at a certain point a yummy smell arrives at our noses .... the Bivio Hotel has outside a man who is cooking polenta, and let people taste it.
We get near and taste the polenta, WOW is so tasty !!! GNAM GNAM so in a second wee decide to have lunch at Bivio and we get inside, we sit and order some dishes: polenta with sausage and mushrooms for granny and me, with pizzoccheri for daddy and for Momochan potatoes and sausages ;) SLURRRRP
Theese are all tipical dishes from Valtellina the region where we are, also here we can eat bresaola (a special raw salted spiced meat dried) and the tipical cheese.

(AGGIUNGI FOTO DEL BIVIO E DEL RAGAZZO CHE FA LA POLENTA E DEL PRANZO PRIMA DELLE FOTO DI MOMO AI GIOCHI)

After lunch wee wonder around for a couple of hours, granny wants to buy  some items and I need some chokolate ;)
As soon as we have finished I am deadly tired about walking everywhere so we come back home.
Justside our apartment there are some kids play, a balance, a slider, a small house, ball, and Momo wants to play so while granny and daddy are having rest inside the apartment, I am togather with Momochan outside playing, well, she is playing while I am taking fotos and sitting on a huge tree trunk so wide that to hug it you would need two people ;)
It is fantastic how here in the mountains kids parks are always clean, you do not know who is in charge to care about them but they are always perfect, no mud around, balance and sliders and toys are always clean, no trash on the ground, for crazy that it could be, you could go play there also with the sunday fest dress that you would never dirty ! absolutely nothing in common with the park in our town.
In my opinion, here there are some things alike Japan, first as I said, everything clean and accessible, second you hardly can find trash containers around (where the hell do the Livigno people throw trash ??), kids go to school alone, bicicle, helmet and rucksack on the shoulders, people are polite and last but not least, if you need to go toilet you will always find it clean as the one your home !

Livigno apartment

Through internet we have found a cute apartment to book online, we can go Livigno and take granny with us because the apartment is bigger enough, cute, comfortable and with kitchen so we can take food with us and not buy anything in town.
Once arrived in Livigno after lunch, the first thing we do is goint to the agency to take the keys, agency is in the center while apatment is just outside, 2 km from the center but still in town.
Our little house is composed by a little genkan, small open kitchen, a big window to see the mountains outside and the table and chairs, a sofa we can turn into bed for granny in the night and a chimeny.
Behind there is a cute bathroom with washtub, hooks and hangerrs, bigger thatn the one we have at home, and a bedroom with a double bed and a double closet for dresses and luggage.

Livigno

This morning we are leaving for Livigno, daddy is on holiday until 3 october so I have decided that Momochan can stay home and not go to kindergarden until daddy return to work so they can have time togather ;)
Momochan obviously was happy about the idea to have vacation for some time, stay with daddy and go to the mountains, so wee start this morning with our breakfast at our preferred coffe shop and after a quick shopping at the supermarket to get food for two days to take away with us, milk, butter, yogurt and cereals for breakfast, chiken meat and veggies.
After supermarket we have to go to granny because she comes with us so while we make breakfast and go supermarket she has more time to prepare luggage.
The apartment has an entrance with a kitchen and a livingroom with a sofa bed for granny, a bathroom (sooooo bigger than the one we have at home and with bathtub, YEEEEEEEE) and a bedroom for us with a double bed.

At midday we arrive at the same place we stop everytime we go Livigno, a big shopping center with a McDonalds.
As recently we have seen in the cinema The Smurfs 2, Mc Donalds has new Happy Meals with smurfs inside and Momo would like to have ;)
After lunch in an hour time we arrive, I have to say I cannot wait to go to the Foto Gino store to take my new cell phone. This small holiday has three main aim: let Momo and daddy stay togather, let daddy relax and also to buy my new cell phone as the old one has definitely ..... dead !!!  ;)
So, we have to go first to the apartment (see our apartment how it looks like) and take from the car all our luggage, then we go to the center to the foto and phone store and we buy my cell, after we go to our preferred supermarket the Cooperativa, where we can find chocolate, liquors, bresaola, and many other foods special from Livigno and of course,a coffee inside our preferred place that is Hotel Bivio, a cute place in the main road in the center of the town, it is an hotel, has a coffee corner where you can have snacks or eat for lunch and dinner and a downstairs zone for hearing music and take cocktails ;)

For evening meal we are back home, at our new apartment for theese two days.
Daddy is cooking in the little kitchen, some japanese pasta (soba ??) while Momo wants to see Ironman 3 on tv togather with granny so after meal we open the big sofa and once washed and dressed with pijama we all see the film but we have had a looong day so before end Momochan fall asleep, we take her to our bedroom, granny take possesion of her bed and Sampei and I play with cell phone and pc HEHEHE

The Smurfs 2

This afternoon we have gone to cinema to see the new second film about the Smurfs ;)
Momochan loves to go cinema even if when we are at home wee are not able to see any film on tv because she is always speaking all the time while inside the cinema she automatically shuts the mouth and watches ! HAHAHA

wakaba restaurant

Today daddy has proposed to eat outside and we have decided to go eating japanese ;)
He knows a place where you can pay a sum per person (kids pay half) and eat all you want, the restaurant is called Wakaba.
Momochan was enthusiat of going out restaurant with daddy and also she wanted to demonstrate how she likes, whenever we go restaurant she always eat everything, while when we are at home she needs more than and hour to finish her meal and is veeeeeery slow.
Food is not bad here, Sampei knows that place because in the place where he works, often when they want to get out eating alltogather they go to Wakaba and they all love eating there ;)
We have come here several times and always we eat good, this time I wanted to try ramen and I have to say it is the only food I will never try again here, absolutely untasty and noodles were too cooked !
I love tempura, the potatoes korokke and the chiken karaage which is fried chiken ;) YUMMY

daddy's coming to town ...

Daddy is coming back home today, he has called me during the night yesterday to tell me the data of the flight and we have to go Linate Airport to catch him up, Momochan is so happy about it ;)
She has choosed what to wear and has taken her Peppa Pig bag with her juice ;)
And here we go with our family Clio car to the airport, pity I forgot to take a foto of daddy and kid as soon as he got out of the doorsbut here they are running through out town happily "daddy take meeeeee HAHAHAH"

pencil case

This year Momochan has to take to kindergarden a pencil case and a big notebook.
Kids will use to accustom to the first year of school next year and will learn how to use. Momochan got crazy for a green Trilly pencil case she saw in the shops under our house since this spring, so yesterday I bought ;)
I had to wrote down and personalize every pencil, felt pen, rubber, sharpener, ruler and pen so that she will not loose !

2nd day of kindergarden ;)

Today Momochan is starting kindergarden again.
This will be her last year, next year she will attend elementary school ;)
Today Momochan is verry happy, she will have many novelties, first of all 17 new little kids 3 years old in her class and second but not last, a notebook and a pencil case like big kids !!!
Teachers will get kids accustomed to notebooks and the way of doing of elementary school, not really teaching how to write but giving another step to kids to grow and enter in a bigger world ;)

For the first four days, kids will have to wear the special t-shirt they have decorated last spring, see in the foto ? every shirt had notes (the theme of the year) and the name of the kid in a corner, each kid has decorated his own t-shirt and afterwards teachers have ironed each one to get the colours strong and make the shirts washable ;)
Once arrived at school we discover kids of the class are so few: looking at the bags attached in the bathroom (containing a change for the kids just in case), they are only six (Momochan's bag is the second one) ;)