After spending the morning exploring Cortona, Funnel headed back to the hotel for a nap, and I decided to do some shopping in the town square.  I browsed several pottery shops, a textile shop, a couple of art galleries, and some general souvenier shops. 

After a bit, I went back to the hotel to get Funnel, and then we grabbed a late lunch from a little pizza shop.  It had started to drizzle a bit, so Funnel and I ate our pizza under the awning of a hat store.

After the rain stopped we visited a bunch of the stores that I had gone to earlier that afternoon.  We did a little shopping – we bought our moms necklaces and I bought a little plate to hang in our living room from this cute pottery shop:

We had some gelato and enjoyed walking around the town square:

Funnel bought me this Hello Kitty bling from a vending machine that was set right outside a toy store:

We walked a ways down the main road below the town, into the more modern area of Cortona:

It was about dinner time, so we went back to our hotel to freshen up.  For dinner we decided to go back to the same restaurant as the night before.  It had been so good, and we had  talked to someone who had been in town for several weeks who said it was the best restaurant in Cortona. 

For dinner, Funnel and I split bruscetta and Funnel had sausage (he said it was the best sausage he had ever had) and I had this pork with balsamic dressing and peppercorns:

Funnel and I rushed a bit through dinner (much to the dismay of our sweet waiter) because we wanted to catch the sunset over beautiful tuscany.  We climbed the hill to a nice lookout spot (I realized then how out of shape I am) and we got to see the very end of the sunset. 

I was sad that night that we were leaving Cortona the next morning.  Cortona stole my heart – it was my favorite place we had visited, and I wished we had planned more than 2 days there.

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