Venezia!

Well, it was a lovely time we had in Venice! We (that is Josh Ziesel, Staci, and me) didn’t go in to a single museum, and we popped in only one church right at the end... other than that we just hung out in Venice! It was a wonderful day- really sunny, and pretty cold, but nice! We arrived in the late morning, got acquainted with some canals and some of the “roads” and walkways, and then took a water taxi our to Murano, and island in the lagoon of Venice where the Venetian glass is made! It was neat, but very commercialized and cheesy at the same time- I’m sure that our free tour of this glass blowing place was aimed at us buying something, and those somethings were not anything impressive... but none the less it was a cool thing to have done!
After that we headed back to the “mainland’ and wandered around in circles due to horrible detour signs in order to find the Rialto bridge... huge! And really cool! We took our gondola ride too... not so cheap, but hey, I’ve ridden in a gondola in Venice! I can’t complain!
Venice is a super cool place... I don’t think you understand that the streets REALLY are water... there really aren’t roads for cars except to get IN to Venice, and then you’re better off walking or paddling! Though I must say, you’d NEVER want to fall in that water!
It was a great day- really relaxing and a welcome break from the typical tour of cities... there was no agenda, no worries, just soaking up that city of canals!