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13: Venice
Where to start? Love, love-love-love, love Venice!
This was my second time and just as fantastic as the first. Maybe even better
since I knew what to look for!
The view from our boat coming into the Harbor was truly
magical. We were able to see the entire city.
We arrived and boarded the water bus (when the
roads are made of water, the bus is a boat!)
We took in some of the sites...
J had some major navigational difficulties this
day. Normally she is the go-to navigator, however on water her internal compass
must get a little wonky. Last time I was in Venice I was with J and the same
thing happened. She reminded me REPEATEDLY that getting lost in Venice was
literally what we wrote down on our itinerary so we should be enjoying
ourselves. Note to self: NEVER put ‘get
lost in ___’ on an itinerary again, I simply am not made for
it.
ON this visit, we ended up passing the same café
three times and walking in exactly the wrong direction. However, we were all
forbidden to point this out (don’t you love family dynamics? J ) and had to follow
her anyway. This happened again on the way back to the boat at 10pm and we
somehow ended up next to Venice’s prison. To be fair—this was not an attraction
we had visited yet.
We then
walked several miles in the rain (uphill the whole way, with no shoes, in a
snowstorm) back to our ship. A and I passed the time singing Girl Scout songs
our mom taught us when we were kids. I
know what you are thinking—yes there are people who sing camp songs after the
age of 10—and those people weren’t even in the Girls Scouts.
Never fear, these Girls Scouts (and their fellow ear
plugging travel companions) still had an extraordinary time and Venice was the
perfect place to end our trip.
Next week: Back to real life!
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