My new Italian friends!

(Oh, I always put the photos in backwards!

Anyway, here is a magnificent chess set

(which we didn't buy)

It's the Pazzi family versus the Medici family.

A view of the store with their beautiful offerings
The store is called I Medici
It is in downtown Chicago in a big mall
adjacent to the Macy's

Doris who is Italian, and is now in Chicago
but lived with Carlo in Florence for ten years!
So she is fluent in Italian and patiently gave me Italian lessons
and helped me pick out a new purse

and Bret a much needed new briefcase.

They also have a son named Adam and another named David.