5:30 am we began our journey to Italy. Another reason why I think Austria would be such a prime place to live is because it is only a short trip from here to all these other sick places. It only took 4 hours until we entered the breathtaking city of Venice. In Venice, NO ONE has a car, and so everyone that enters Venice with a car, they leave it in a parking garage until their stay is finished. So that's what we did! 8th floor of the parking garage and our first view of the city!
We loaded up onto a water bus and got off 40 minutes later at the stop nearest to our hotel. We walked through old alleyway and we were so shocked that our BEAUTIFUL hotel was located here. You never would have guessed by looking on the outside! (Don't judge a hotel by it's alley, yeah? No? Okay.) After checking in, we went straight to the Markusplatz to see what all the hullaboo was about. Apparently, this is one of the largest attractions in Venice, and to me it looks like just a huge square with lots of tourists and pigeons. (Oops did I say that out loud?) haha but it was cool. The reason it is such a large attraction to tourists is because Venice is such a crowded city with buildings EVERYWHERE, and because this is a wide open space, people loooove it.
We hadn't eaten anything all day, but my first Italian gelato solved all my problems. It was in this crowded ice cream shop on a narrow street, and the cutest girl was the only one that worked there and I was like "hey can I have your job?" and she was like "no, but you can have a gelato" it was still the most delicious ice cream and I loved that she had a perfect job serving perfect ice cream in a perfect city.
The mother and I wanted to explore while the oldies were tired and went back to the hotel to catch some z's. Getting lost in Venice is a dream. We walked down the river watching men with striped shirts rowing gondolas under bridges, children feeding birds, and people eating pizza in outside cafés. It was like something out of a movie.
We explored a few shops and found some creepy things on the way.
The people that live here are always trying to scam you out of your money and Uncle Volker warned us about it but I guess my mom didn't realize that that was the case when a mime asked if I wanted to take a picture with him.. I was like heck no, but mom was like yes yes! And she pulled out her camera while I went over by the creepy mime and she took a picture. After, we started walking away, and the mime reached out his hat for us to put money in there, and my mom was like no and kept walking and the mime followed us! Ahh he was so creepy. But hey I got a free picture with an Italian mime ;)
After our little exploration, we went and met up with the oldies and went to dinner. I now understand the fuss about Italian pizza. Holy cow, it was heaven with sauce on it, and yes I ate the whole thing. The restaurant was perfect as well with the waiters wearing tuxedos and yeah. It was a good time. What do you do after you eat dinner? The correct answer is get another gelato. Mhmmmm. I think they are trying to make me fat so they can eat me or something. It's really the only logical solution to why they are gladly feeding me so much. Once we finished our ice cream, we went up this never ending elevator to the top of the Campanile (bell tower) to get an ever better view of all of Venice. It was so so so beautiful.
Then we went back to our hotel room where we listened to a guy playing his guitar and singing outside our window for hours. Id say that it was a magical way to end our first day in Italy.
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