Hello all, it's been a few days since I've written last. We've been in Venice for almost 3 days now, but haven't had internet (which has been killing me!) so today we thought we'd stop in an internet cafe to get out of the rain! We've been up to a lot since I last wrote, so I suppose I should start back at the beginning...
Wednesday morning, we took our time getting ready, since our train to Venice didn't leave until 11:27. We found our train and seats without any problem, and had a nice 3 hour train ride that ended up being more about 4 hours since we stopped for a long time in Bologna. But finally, we arrived in Venice, and it was sunny and gorgeous! We both couldn't believe we were actually here - the canals and the old buildings in the city are just amazing. Our hotel was just a minute from the train station, which was super convenient. We then decided a good way to start our sightseeing would be with a vaporetto boat tour of the city. The vaporettos are like the city bus system here, except they run on the water! We went all the way from the start of Venice to San Marco square, at the end of the city. St. Mark's is the big tourist area here, and is absolutely FILLED with pigeons!!! Seriously, like thousands of them! It was a little overwhelming at first because they all look like they're going to attack you!
We decided to do the Campanile first - it's the huge bell tower in the middle of the square, and had great views of the whole city. We wanted to be up there when the bells went off, but we were a half hour too early so didn't want to wait. After that, we wandered the back streets behind St. Marks to look for some dinner. And, this is no easy task, I should say - especially for Katie and I. You see, we're definitely perfectionists when it comes to most things, including dinner and gelato - and won't decide to eat somewhere unless it is cheap AND has good quality, which is pretty much an oxymoron. :) So, needless to say, it takes us at least a half hour daily to decide where to eat. The place we decided on was decent, Katie had gnocchi finally (potato dumplings), and I had tortellini. Mmm mmm. After dinner, we also took our time finding gelato, which almost was a problem because the places all started closing around 8 or 8:30! We soon found out that after then, everything in Venice pretty much becomes a ghost town - everything shuts down once the tourists are gone for the day.
We got back to our hotel early-ish, and since we have a TV here, we watched more Italian MTV again of course! I actually somewhat like the MTV here better though - they actually show music videos! :)
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