Day 3

The Laguna at sunset

Mom on the water taxi on

the Grande Canal

Me and mom in St Marks Square, the Basilica is behind us!

Yeserday we spent almost 13 hours in Venice. I was awestruck. It was beautiful, and the people were so nice. We were afraid to venture out on our own because the many streets and canals and I see how many people get lost in Venice. We has a wonderful time though and I would love to return again one day. There was so much to see and so much to do that we only got to do a couple of things.

We started out at a very old church that we were not "officially" take pictures in but our tour guide Ari told us to do it incognito. We have some really beautiful pictures of Venice and the canals.

Mom and I went shopping and I got a beautiful glass pendant and earrings from the Murano Glass blowing factory. We went to the factory and had a demonstration of glass blowing and a discussion on how they color the glass. It was amazing it took the glass blower about 5 minutes to make a great vase. 5 minutes and vases like that cost like 450 euros which is about $700 dollars for 5 minutes. It was crazy. We also did some shopping and had a delicous pastery and gellato for dinner (really healthy stuff).

That night we took the water taxi done the Grand Canal and got to see all the palaces at dusk and night. This is where the second picture was taken. It was so amazing I can't describe it and do it any justice.

My favorite picture is at the top I took this on the Laguna at sunset right in front the of the palace. The view was beautiful and I could not resist taking a few more pictures.

I will post today's stuff on another post.

I miss everyone!

Love Becky