Today we slept in comfortable air conditioned rooms which made it hard to wake up early. We had breakfast included with our room so we went down and sat along the Grand Canal and had cafe americano's fresh fruit, smoothies and juice. After breakfast we went back to San Marco square to see if we could get into the famous church but the line was to long and our time was too short. We fell upon a glass making demonstration and saw a master craftsman make a horse, which was pretty cool. We then looked around at the expensive Murano glass in the showrooms. After that we headed to see the famous Rialto bridge. Shelly took pictures and the kids watched the gondolas float by. The Rialto area of Venice was nice and while we were there we picked up a few small souvenirs and Tony bought some shoes (his 3 year old shoes that he wore in Italy last time were shot) The kids saw or more likely smelled a bakery called Pasticceria and we picked up a couple cannoli and a gondola which is a horseshoe shaped cookie that has almond flavor. We decided to take another run at San Marco and the bridge of sigh but we struck out so we headed back to the hotel to pack up our 3 backpacks (we checked our bags at the train station). We decided to stop for a light lunch before leaving Venice so we went to Osteria Restaurant for Mozz and tomatoes, prosuitto and melon, salad, and pasta carbonara (spilt between 4 of us) and of course vino! We wrapped up lunch and jumped on a vaporetti and headed for the train station, picked up our bags and jumped on a train headed for Florence/Firenze. We are on the train now and will be in florence in a couple of hours!
Venice is a special place where everywhere you look its like a postcard. We enjoyed visiting there and the kids enjoyed it too. They especially like the gondola ride last night which they said was cool going through the back alley canals and that it was relaxing and quite. Ciao.
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