Beautiful Venice
This is my favorite photo of the entire trip.
The Grand Canal, my other favorite photo, taken from a gondola.
Fish outside a restaurant near the Realto Bridge.
Venice was beautiful. It felt so good to be back after two years. It's such a picturesque, romantic place. But sadly, tourism is practically the only economic resource left in Venice. Almost everything in the city is geared towards tourists. The Venice that once was a vibrant bustling city is dead, and only its memory lives on through the millions of tourists that visit it.
We stayed in a hostel. I've never stayed in a hostel before and was a little nervous (I've heard some bed bug horror stories). It wasn't bad, it was cheap. The shower down the hall was literally a leaky water spicket next to a toilet - kind of sketch. None of us showered that night.
We took a gondola ride and got an awesome price since we went at night. It was really beautiful. We did alot of walking and alot of shopping. I ate alot of gelato and bought Italian sandals. I met two Italian dogs- one named Trisha, a black poodle with pig-tails who spends her days greeting the tourists at an Italian shoe store. And one named August, the cutest funniest looking dog, EVER. His owner told me he is Welsh and I later found out he is a Cardigan Welsh Corgi. They are awesome. Super short, with long bodies and huge bat ears! I am adding them to my ever-growing list of dogs I'm going to own one day.
oranges. It's orange juice from blood red oranges! And it doesn't taste like orange juice because they leave out the pulp.
Yesterday I went to the super market and bought some much missed Honey Os and milk. Milk here is good for almost a month and I found its because its "irratiated" to take all the bacteria out. We could do this in the US but the milk companies want us to throw out our milk and have to have to buy more. Dumb capitalism. I also bought nutella in a World Cup collector's glass that I can take home when I'm done with it!
Today is Republic Day so we don't have class. I slept in for the first time in over two weeks. It's thunder and lighning outside so everyone has just been hanging out around the Villa. We ordered chinese food (I know, silly) and watched youtube videos. I'm going to a museum later today. Exciting exciting!
