Venice

Venice:

July 8th-Day 8-City

I woke up around 7 on the train ( after many attempts at sleeping through the night) they fed us some breakfast and forcibly woke Taylor up to eat it when he had finally fallen asleep. Daniel waved goodbye since he got off one stop earlier than us. And we finally made our way to the station. We tried to sort out the whole refund situation but I guess we will just have to do it by mail.

We found our hostel which is much less of a hostel or a hotel and was really an apartment in a random building like two blocks away from the main building but it was super nice. We have an entire living room area and kitchen to share with a nice Australian couple and a room with no bunk beds for the four of us. We bought a 3 day student discount travel pass for the water bus, the free transportation doesn't work in Venice. We saw San Marcos square and many shops and stands all selling the same thing. We "got lost", which is a must do in Venice, to find lunch and then headed home for a nap time.

Taylor and I went out in search of a grocery store to buy supplies for our home cooked Italian meal. It was super affordable and tasted great! Real pesto does the trick. We relaxed on our patio and then went for a stroll. We didn't want to stay out too late after some crazy stories our roommates told us and we played cards and listened to music on the patio before settling into a bed for some well deserved sleep in a bed.

July 9th-Day 9-City 5
I woke up before everyone else and enjoyed my breakfast on the terrace. Taylor came and joined me and eventually Abbey and Reyes woke up too.

We took the boat to Murano island and saw shop after shop of glass creations at ridiculous prices. Taylor knocked over a bottle and then the shop keeper ended up baby sitting him till he left. We got lunch at this place in the far back of a shop, the sign out front had great deals but we got to the counter and they said they didn't have that deal anymore. After some terrible pizza we got back on the boats and headed to the Rialto bridge, which was swarming with tourists. We did some more shopping and kept trying to get lost.

On the way home we stopped at a supermarket to get some drinks and veggies to help us spice up the leftovers from dinner the night before. We showered up prepared dinner and enjoyed our feast. After dinner we took the boat to the Fondamenta Nove, a strip of restaurants and shops across from San Marcos plaza for a peaceful night time stroll. We rode back home and enjoyed our drinks before going to bed.

July 10th-Day 10-City 5
We woke up around 11 and started packing up our stuff. The maid knocked on our door and told us we missed check out, we had no idea when check out was since we were never told, but we hurried our things together and left for the train station to store our bags for the day.

We went to the market and got some fruit to eat by the canal then "got lost" one last time to go find lunch.  We got so much food we ended up saving it for dinner on the train. We walked to some churches and some more streets and eventually made it to the train station with plenty of time to spare. We played some cards on the train and read our books.