Venice

After our quick trip to Sienna on Wednesday, we were off again but this time to Venice and for 3 days. After a longish bus ride to the coast, plus a boat ride into the city (crazy) we had arrived to the city on the sea. Our first impressions of Venice was, I can't believe its all on water!! It is awesome and just so weird to think there were no cars, taxis, or crazy scooters around. Just singing gondala men. haha (We found out only 1 gondala women...haha) After checking into our hotel we went with our program to Piazza San Marco, St. Mark's Basillica, Doge's Palace, and the Bridge of Sighs. (which was under construction...) We finished our day with a really expensive and not very good dinner by Piazza San Marco and fell right to sleep in our mosquito filled hotel room. The next day we decided to take a break from the museums and go to a Venice beach, Lido. The beach was great, relaxing, and filled with lots of colorful beach wear options included speedos and just bottoms. hahaha After getting our fair share of the sun we took the water buses to Murano, the glass blowing city, and Burano, the lace city.  In Murano we got to see how they make the famous Murano glass which was awesome and even got to see the man make a glass blown horse in 2 minutes....which was awesome. Burano was filled with lots of colorful streets and lots and lots of lace. Lace bras, lace shirts, lace tablecloths, lace underwear, lace patches, lace shower curtains. You name it, they had it. This night our food got a lot better and ended with a good dinner by the ocean. Perfect. The next morning we visited the Peggy Guggenhiem Museum which housed contemporary art. It was a nice break from the normal art you see in Italy which was pretty cool and the museum property was gorgeous and of course on the water. Then comes the tourist part, the gondala ride. We made a trip around the city in our very own gondala along with a long line of other tourists that Sunday morning. And of course it was great and really fun and we negotiated and got it for a great price!! Venice was amazing and we loved it soooo much!! We also noticed lots of cruise ships that start, end , and stop there....giving some people here some hints. hahaha