Hi, my name is Jordan and I’m a chocolaholic. Yes, addicted to chocolate.

All jokes aside, I don’t remember the last time I was as wowed by chocolate as I was on the seventh floor of the mall in Milan. A lady was handing out free samples, and to say that Sydney and I were all over it like white on rice would be a severe understatement. Through our chorus of “mmmmm,” we both decided that we had to buy some to take home. She bought an assortment to share and I bought an assortment for my mom and also a white chocolate bar for myself to indulge on later.

Leaving the mall, we decided we had to check out a Milan comic book store (which no one should be surprised by). Already having bought myself an X-Men comic for myself in Rome, I set off to find a Deadpool comic for my brother. I did end up finding an original Deadpool (begrudgingly, since it was outrageously more expensive than the little shop in Rome had been) and purchased it along with an Italian children’s book about cats (again, no surprise) for my nephews.

During our next course of action, which was buying some trinkets for various other family members, Sydney and I were stopped and basically had birdseed shoved into our hands. Immediately pigeons rained down on us, stirring up our hair with the wind their wings created. They perched on our wrists and pecked the birdseed out of our hands, which was probably the coolest feeling ever. Having their little toes wrapped around my skin was such a strange sensation that I never could have imagined had I not experienced it firsthand. The man demanded money from us after, annoyingly but unsurprisingly, but honestly we weren’t even mad. Both of us had been trying to feed the birds all trip so it was really cool to have been able to feed them straight from our hands.