Venice

Venice was amazing! The trip started off a little rough though. We got into Venice by couch bus due to possible train striking. Not realizing that we would need to take the train out of the city to get to our hotel we bought tickets for the train. Only after much standing around and some confusion we found our train had decided not to leave the city until after 5pm. This meant we needed to take the public bus out of the city. That wouldn't have been so bad if we had known Italian or the stops had signs. There were several moments of Panic. After much travel we finally did make it to our hotel. That night we ate dinner in the small town we were staying in.

The next day we ventured back into Venice. Thankfully the train people got it together and stopped striking which made the commute there way less stressful. It was a perfect fall day, 65 and Sunny. Holly, Maria and I just decided to start walking in the general direction of one of the major plazas. The buildings were a pretty sort of old crumbling state.

We made it to the giant plaza and went into the Church that was made of so much gold. I have never seen so much gold in my life. It was pretty and interesting to look at the architecture and paintings inside. After much walking around we decided to find some lunch. One a remote side ally we found a family owned pizza shop where I am pretty sure it was the best pizza I have ever had in my life. We found a small plaza area and people watched while we ate lunch and enjoyed the sun. Then after we continued on our way we found an amazing gelato place. The tiramisu gelato that was to die for. We did make it onto a boat on the grand canal which was one of the highlights of the whole trip.

This week during the 10 day break Holly, Maria and I are headed to Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin!