Milan

Christmas Eve in Milan is pretty cool. Our place was fricking HUGE! Thank you Christine for the tip. A business hotel was giving 2 upgrades for the hotel, so our normal room became a pretty cool "Executive Suite" for like 50€ a night or something. With a huge breakfast spread.
I don't remember if I have mentioned this, but a free breakfast is pretty killer if you are trying to stay on budget and don't want to stop for a big lunch, or anything at all for that matter.
As it was about 10:30pm when we got in, and this ain't Kroger, nothing was open, so we went to bed a little hungry but killed off some wine from the train. So when breakfast rolled around, I went pretty nuts:
4 eggs, scrambled
1 Prosciutto and mustard on toast
1 turkey, swiss and mayo on toast
2 "wurst" (although I'd call them smokey links)
1 Chocolate croissant
1 glass orange juice
1 glass carrot juice
2 cups coffee
and 2 crackers with Nutella on them
For free. And I dig it.
After breakfast we went to the museum of La Scalla (the world famous opera house) and were able to peek from one of the opera boxes into the actual theater. The view was pretty spectacular.
From there we went to the church that housed the fresco for the Last Supper, and I managed to sneak a photo of it.
From there its off to stop for a beer and a coffee before seeing the Fort in Milan that is a Rick Steve's must see. It is both free and quite immense. We decide to skip the 10€ admission to see the armor collection and Egyptian antiquities (which apparently make sense to have in a fort in Milan?).
We find a kitchen supply store for a bottle opener, a bakery for a blackberry torte, and lemon torte and some bread, and a market for brie, turkey in a mushroom sauce, the second-best salami in Milan (they would only sell the best by the half-kilo!), wine, beer, Fanta, and salmon. This is the Christmas feast which we eat while watching Live Free or Die Hard followed by Mr Marorum's Wonder Emporium.
Hope your Christmas was just as fun.