Venice.

Venice is an hour or so train ride from my little home in Aviano. It only cost 6 euro to get there. Wow. I seriously just went to VENICE ITALY and back for 12 euro. Ya. I feel So. Awesome. Ok. I'll tell you the whole Venice story. So. I decided I wanted to go to Venice and when I was at church I met a girl, named Danielle, who also wanted to go. We are great friends now. We asked the Senior Missionaries (they are seriously the coolest people and my best friends) if they could take us to the train station and they said yes. So today I woke up and left at 7:30 AM and rode the hour or so train ride to Venice. When I stepped off the train I seriously almost had a heart attack. It totally dawned on me. I am stinkin in Italy and I am in Venice. I tend to forget I live in  Italy cause i'm sort of in my own little bubble consisting of the family I nanny for, and this small town. Anyways. I stood there and It was SO AWESOME!!!!! Danielle and I were kind of freaking out. A lot. We walked for hours and hours looking at everything we could lay our eyes on. There is so much to see! Stores on every corner, people in costumes, gelato, paintings, beautiful buildings, famous churches, more gelato, museums, food, cafes, amazing shopping. GAH. It was all so overwhelming. I loved it all. [Side Note: I found a store that had the CUTEST black leather jacket. I bought it.]  After a few hours we were lost and found ourselves at the famous Piazza San Marco. [Fun Fact: When Napoleon waltzed into Venice in 1797, he was so taken with the square he dubbed it 'the finest drawing room in Europe']. There we found one of the worlds most opulent churches and symbol of the city, the Basilica di San Marco. When we began to enter I guess my legs were showing to much skin so I had to purchase a itchy shawl thing and wrap it around myself to show respect. All the paintings and architecture is absolutely amazing. I loved it (I wanna work in a museum or something of the sort so bad!). As we started our maze back to the trains, we found we could not retrace our footsteps and we got lost. It is so easy to get lost in Venice, there are so many little streets and alley ways. So anyways. We are lost and we find a water bus (it has a special name but that's what I call it) and we buy a ticket and ride the Grand Canal to the trains. This was one of my favorite parts of being in Venice haha. It was so fun. When we found our binaro and got on the train it was so flippin hot. Italians don't like a/c. It boggles my mind. It was so hot and humid. I have never sweated so much in my whole life. But hey. It was so fun anyways :D This was such a wonderful trip and the cool thing is I can do it whenever I stinkin want. Besides when i'm working of course ;) I am loving where I live. Life is good.

Italian fresh fruit and veggies market. It looked so so delicious. 

Venice is all about the masks. I would say 1/4 of the shops in Venice are full of masks.

Real Italian Pizza, 8 euro. Our small coke that I drank in one gulp, 5 euro. 

Danielle :)

Gucci?

Piazza San Marco. There was a lot of people there.

Haha this picture is so awkward and hilarious.

                      

I thought this was funny. It was really nice inside though!

Piazza San Marco

Basilica di San Marco.

After taking this picture I was FORCED to put some monies in the 'donation' jar...

Some important monument.. I forgot the name. 

Bridge over the Great Canal.

ohhh.. Venice..

This man was a creeper.

No a/c on train=no bueno. Also on the train there was some guys who were staring at me and making me feel super uncomfortable. So I moved over so they couldn't see me. Then I looked again a while later and they licked there lips and hissed at me. EWWW.

On our way home we got out of the car and there was this BEAUTIFUL sunset. I swear I saw angels..