Luna Euro Park was lined with games and food booths. I ended up doubling down on the granitas, since it was a pretty hot day. They had these odd candies up at the counter, I guess they are just sugar water, but I liked the color and the way they caught the light.
The carnival games came in most of the standard varieties. This one was kind of cute, you had to hook the swans by the neck as they floated past.
This one was a pretty standard throw the hoops over the blocks kind of thing.
We didn't end up playing any of the games, but I liked the look!
At Luna Euro Park, this was our "crazy" ride. The Flying Fury looks like a regular swinging arm ride, but it's user controlled. You have control over two axes of motion, roll and yaw, and over the speed of this big old ABB propeller fan.
We let Dariush drive, and now I know why Ali doesn't want him to drive his car. I'm upside-down in this picture because that's the orientation the camera and I were in.
It doesn't look so bad in this video, right? They are actually going pretty slowly! Let me assure you it was pretty insane.
They make you leave everything on the ground, and rightfully so. I barely managed to hold on to my camera! Dariush lost a whole pocketful of stuff. Here's the guys after we found his phone on the roof of the ride next door. His lighter turned up, his cigarettes did not. And the phone was in four or five pieces, but it shockingly still worked after he put it together again.
This last weekend, I went to Luna Euro Park by Linate with my lab posse. I took a lot of photos, a bunch of which I want to share!
We hit a few rides out there, one we all could agree on was the bumper cars!
Another one we went on was this one, called Condor. It seems like a standard carnival ride, but I don't know if I have ever seen this one before. I found the motion of it pretty hypnotic, so I made a video.
I haven't been posting my routine groceries as much lately, but i thought that I might share some of my recent taste treats. Last week I forced myself to buy different stuff than usual on my Penny trip. You can't really make them all out below, but there's ricotta salata, lupini beans, bigoli pasta, different olives, shallots, a melon, the globe zucchini, roasted yellow peppers, and a new flavor of Schogetten chocolates.
Here's a closer look at the produce!
The globe zucchini don't have a squishy seedy middle, actually. These were really good, I cooked them up with some of the shallots!
I found the bigoli to be a little tougher than I like my pasta. I cooked them for way longer than instructed on the package! Not sure if I will get these again, but they did grow on me a bit!
I finally cut open the lime I got from Isola Bella, and unfortunately it's a decorative lime. It's all pith! That central portion is about 1/2 inch in diameter.
Blake and I visited the Triennale while he was here. Almost all of the exhibits were new since the last time I visited. The primary exhibit, the design exhibition, had changed to the new edition. The last one was furniture, the new one is graphic design, with the focus really on text and graphic identity.
The exhibit includes typefaces, magazines and books with a focus on covers, posters, brand identity items, and even video graphics such as station bumps and intro sequences. These safety posters were cute to me!
We saw pretty much all the exhibits in the museum, which included Gérard Rancinan's The Trilogy of the Moderns, and an exhibit of modern material samples. This piece below is actual alligator skin, treated to translucency!
When Blake and I headed down to the castle, we saw some odd stuff. For the first time, I saw someone feeding the cats! There was a crazy cat lady!
And, it must have been some sort of holiday, because there was big gathering with a priest and his band singing folk songs. Lots of people were dancing in circles around the band.
Even with the rain, the park wasn't exactly empty!
