Last Tuesday we woke up at 5:00 AM to go to Milan. We went almost straight to the tram which we took to the train station. We ran from the tram stop to the train which was a special tilting train for international routes. It is called the "Pendolino" invented by the Italians to go around curves. It was 6:00 in the morning so we tried to get some sleep, it was too bright. We finally got there at 10:00 AM. We walked straight to the entrance which was very convenient to get to. It was huge and it still had lines. The employees were just arriving to because it had just opened. The first Pavilion we entered was the Brazilian one because we had heard about it being good. It had a pretty long line getting in but we finally got in. It was made out of a huge net over a garden with buildings on the side describing Brazilian Agriculture. It took us one hour to do it when we came out it was 11:00 and was getting very hot. The next pavilion we had read about was Korea. The Korean one was all about fermentation and how it could save the world although it did not say how. From there we went to the Kinder sport arena. I did not think it was going to be a good idea because it was so hot, but we did it anyway after that we had some not very good Pizza for Lunch. We continued to the UK pavilion which from what we read was the nº1 pavilion it was about bees and had a huge structure representing a bee hive. We got a lemonade there and kept walking while we ate it. We ended up going through Israel to get to the tree of life and the Italian pavilion. The tree of life is a large tower that was sort of like the main attraction at the fair, it does a show every hour. It was going when we passed it so we went to the front and sat down. But the problem was that right after it finished everyone went and waited in line for the Italian pavilion, and since we were in the front of the crowd we got in the back of the line. The Italian pavilion was not very impressive to us although it was huge, we thought the line was to long. We continued past many pavilions that looked like they would be fun such as Japan. We got to the U.S. which was very cool and was the only pavilion that had their president talking at the entrance! They also had Michele Obama talking about how the population is growing very fast and we need to do more sustainable farming to get everyone good food. The pavilion had a huge living wall with Lettuce that could blow in the wind. Then we went to the American food trucks and got killer burgers although there were not very many people there. Than we started our walk back to the train station. On the way back we got awesome Ice cream in the chocolate section then we got on the train home. The Expo was super fun and there were many pavilions that we did not get to go, such as Switzerland which you needed free tickets to go to which they did not have by the time we got there. But it was one of the funnest days in the sabatical so far (and one of the hottest).
Brazilian Pavilion With Net
UK Pavilion, Beehive Center
Tree of Life
American Pavilion Outside Front
American Pavilion Living Wind Wall
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