Yesterday we got a late start, 11:00 by the time we woke up and got out the door. Took the water bus down the Grand Canal to the end of Venice. Got off and walked our way back seeing neighborhoods and many non tourist specific parts to Venice. Beautiful...Randy's on the hunt for the BEST gelato around so we pretty much have to try them all! They don't serve Randy sized scoops here though.
Today...looked up the BEST gelato place per Rick Steves and took us forever but we finally found it! It was La Boutique and delicious but even smaller scoops! Visited San Marco's Bascilica and for another church it was beautiful. All mosaic pictures and lots of gold everywhere! Apparently the sea captains donated their "booty" for the church.
Very artistic town so we saw many random art exhibits, thought of Jason. One artist, Oksana, from Poland had this huge mosaic made up of millions o wooden eggs all individually painted with Easter themes and symbols.
Another free exhibit was a music history museum where we saw lires, flutes, oboes, violins, mandolins, harps, etc dating as far back as 600 AD!! So cool!!
Kyla, saw some moron wearing an OSU Beavers shirt today!
Randy forgets sometimes that he doesn't like sparkling water...no the bottles look the same except for small print that either says "naturale" or "frizzante" Today, he bought frizzante so he shook it and shook it until there were NO MORE bubbles! Haha, quite comical to watch.
Watching all these people with huge roller luggage 1-2 bags makes me so glad we have relatively small backpacks!
Off to Milan tomorrow for a night then meeting up with Victoria, fellow friend and teacher at Highland Elem, to hike through the Cinque Terre...Then on to FRANCE or SPAIN or somewhere.. :)
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